EVANGELINE Quotes

“His long black tresses, pulled back and tied neatly in the style of the day with a matching silk ribbon, were marked by a distinctive natural white shock running from crown to ends.”
― M.M. Le Blanc, EVANGELINE: PARADISE STOLEN VOL. I: Volume 1, "Evangeline: The True Story of the Cajuns" Series

“This was the first known case in France where the truth was a successful defense to a public official’s claim of defamation.”
― M.M. Le Blanc, EVANGELINE: PARADISE STOLEN VOL. I: Volume 1, "Evangeline: The True Story of the Cajuns" Series

“God and the laws of our country have given us the absolute right to expose and oppose corrupt arbitrary power by speaking and writing truth. And truth is our liberty and our escape from slavery.”
― M.M. Le Blanc, EVANGELINE: PARADISE STOLEN VOL. I: Volume 1, "Evangeline: The True Story of the Cajuns" Series

“Gentlemen of the Jury, the truth is an absolute defense to any claim of defamation.”
― M.M. Le Blanc, EVANGELINE: PARADISE STOLEN VOL. I: Volume 1, "Evangeline: The True Story of the Cajuns" Series

“yet upon the denial of such right to publish the truth, the next step may make them slaves; for what else does slavery do but oppress men by preventing the liberty of complaining, or if they do, by destroying their lives and lands.”
― M.M. Le Blanc, EVANGELINE: PARADISE STOLEN VOL. I: Volume 1, "Evangeline: The True Story of the Cajuns" Series

“Every man who loves his country prefers its liberty to all other considerations, well knowing that life without liberty is a misery and they are mere slaves.”
― M.M. Le Blanc, EVANGELINE: PARADISE STOLEN VOL. I: Volume 1, "Evangeline: The True Story of the Cajuns" Series