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
