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Though the Altar should nourish its ministers, the tithes of those who fail to serve that Altar are the property of the poor.

— Pasquale Paoli Statement after the Pope deprived Corsican bishops of their sees and left them vacant (1760)

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Every Corsican should be a soldier enlisted in the Militia, ready to defend his country: but outside these duties he ought to cultivate the land.

I am determined that the "other side of the mountains" must form part of the Corsican State, all Corsica must be free.

Letter to his father shortly before his return to Corsica (1755)

The Corsican people cannot be reconciled to despotism.

The island will only know efficient government if the vendetta can be stamped out.

The vendetta is finished. The old, happy, carefree festivals of the villages which have been abandoned for so long can now be resumed.

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