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Simon Bolivar

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Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar Palacios Ponte y Blanco was a Venezuelan military officer and statesman who led what are currently the countries of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela to independence from the Spanish Empire.

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Notable works: Escritos del Libertador

About Simon Bolivar

Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar Palacios Ponte y Blanco was a Venezuelan military officer and statesman who led what are currently the countries of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela to independence from the Spanish Empire. He is known colloquially as El Libertador, or the Liberator of America.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Simon Bolivar

Damn it, how will I ever get out of this labyrinth

Bedtime

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“Slavery is the daughter of darkness: an ignorant people is a blind instrument of its own destruction”

Simón Bolívar

Children

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Do not compare your material forces with those of the enemy. Spirit cannot be compared with matter. You are human beings, they…

Beast

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A people that loves freedom will in the end be free.

Ends

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If Nature is opposed, we will fight her and make her obbey us.

Fighting

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In the unity of our nations rests the glorious future of our peoples.

Glorious

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Flee the country where a lone man holds all power: It is a nation of slaves.

Country

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Colombians! My last wish is for the happiness of the patria. If my death contributes to the end of partisanship and the…

Consolidation

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Morals and lights are our first necessities.

Character

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Slavery is the offspring of darkness.

Darkness

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It is harder to release a nation from servitude than to enslave a free nation.

Freedom

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Our hatred knows no bounds, and the war shall be to the death.

Bounds

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Is it conceivable that a newly emancipated people can soar to the heights of liberty, and, unlike Icarus, neither have its wings…

Abyss

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It is harder to maintain the balance of freedom than it is to endure the weight of tyranny.

Balance

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Do not adopt the best system of government, but the one most likely to succeed.

Government

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A state too expensive in itself, or by virtue of its dependencies, ultimately falls into decay.

Decay

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Judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.

Bad

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The first duty of a government is to give education to the people.

Education

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The freedom of the New World is the hope of the Universe.

Freedom

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“The real discoverer of South America was [Alexander von] Humboldt, since his work was more useful for our people than the work…

Simón Bolívar

Admiration

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The Ignorance the people live in leads them to commit mistakes against their own happiness

Commit

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Republican democracy is overperfect and demands political virtues and talents far superior to our own.

Demand

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When mankind was in its infancy, steeped in uncertainty, ignorance, and error, was it possible to foresee what system it would adopt…

Errors

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To do something right it must be done twice. The first time instructs the second.

Done

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Among the popular and representative systems of government I do not approve of the federal system: it is too perfect; and it…

Government

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