Simon Bolivar Quotes

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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 requires virtues and…
• Nations will march towards the apex of their greatness at the same pace as their education. Nations will soar if their education soars; they will…
• Flee the country where a lone man holds all power: It is a nation of slaves.
• Colombians! My last wish is for the happiness of the patria. If my death contributes to the end of partisanship and the consolidation of the…
• Is it conceivable that a newly emancipated people can soar to the heights of liberty, and, unlike Icarus, neither have its wings melt nor fall…
• It is harder to release a nation from servitude than to enslave a free nation.
• When mankind was in its infancy, steeped in uncertainty, ignorance, and error, was it possible to foresee what system it would adopt for preservation.
• Damn it, how will I ever get out of this labyrinth
• The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty
• When tyranny becomes law, rebellion is a right.
• A people that loves freedom will in the end be free.
• 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…
• If Nature is against us, we shall fight Nature and make it obey.
• Our hatred knows no bounds, and the war shall be to the death.
• Slavery is the offspring of darkness.
• War lives on despotism and is not waged with God's love.
• The first duty of a government is to give education to the people.
• A state too expensive in itself, or by virtue of its dependencies, ultimately falls into decay; its free government is transformed into a tyranny; it…
• The three greatest fools of History have been Jesus Christ, Don Quixote . . . and me!
• God grants victory to perseverance.

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