The continuation of authority has frequently proved the undoing of democratic governments. Repeated elections are essential to the system of popular governments, because there is nothing so dangerous as to suffer power to be vested for a long time in… — Simon Bolivar Copy Share Image
“Slavery is the daughter of darkness: an ignorant people is a blind instrument of its own destruction” — Simón Bolívar Copy Share Image
Do not compare your material forces with those of the enemy. Spirit cannot be compared with matter. You are human beings, they are beasts.… — Simon Bolivar Copy Share Image
In the unity of our nations rests the glorious future of our peoples. — Simon Bolivar Copy Share Image
Flee the country where a lone man holds all power: It is a nation of slaves. — Simon Bolivar Copy Share Image
Colombians! My last wish is for the happiness of the patria. If my death contributes to the end of partisanship and the consolidation of… — Simon Bolivar Copy Share Image
It is harder to release a nation from servitude than to enslave a free nation. — Simon Bolivar Copy Share Image
Is it conceivable that a newly emancipated people can soar to the heights of liberty, and, unlike Icarus, neither have its wings melt nor… — Simon Bolivar Copy Share Image
It is harder to maintain the balance of freedom than it is to endure the weight of tyranny. — Simon Bolivar Copy Share Image
Do not adopt the best system of government, but the one most likely to succeed. — Simon Bolivar Copy Share Image
