Simón Bolívar Quotes
1783–1830 Venezuela
Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar y Palacios y Blanco (24 July 1783 – 17 December 1830) was a South American revolutionary leader.
Also known as: Bolívar, Simón, Bolivar, Simon, Simon Bolivar
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Damn it, how will I ever get out of this labyrinth?
The people become accustomed to obeying him, and he becomes accustomed to commanding, hence the origin of usurpation and tyranny.
The Angostura Address (1819)
He who serves a revolution plows in the sea.
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 union, I shall be lowered in peace into my grave.
The distinguishing characteristic of small republics is stability: the character of large republics is mutability.
When I contemplate this immense reunited country, my soul mounts to that height demanded by the colossal perspective of a picture so wonderful.
The Angostura Address (1819)
Unlimited freedom, absolute democracy, are reefs upon which all the republics have come to grief.
The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.
Flee the country where a lone man holds all power: It is a nation of slaves. - Speech spoken in Caracas on 1814, January 2nd.
Absolute democratic government is as much a tyranny as despotism.
Ambition and intrigue abuse the credulity and experience of men lacking all political, economic, and civic knowledge; they adopt pure illusion as reality; they take license for liberty, treachery for patriotism, and vengeance for justice.
If it were possible for one part of the world to return to primitive chaos, this would be the last period of America.
Devoured by all crimes and extinguished by ferocity, the Europeans will not deign to conquer us.
The only thing one can do in America is emigrate.
This country [Colombia] will fall unfailingly into the hands of the unbridled crowd and then pass almost imperceptibly to tyrants of all colors and races.
It is not right to leave everything to the chances and hazards of an election. The masses are more prone to error than those who have been trained and tempered by education.
Liberty, says Rousseau, is a succulent food, but difficult to digest. Our feeble fellow citizens will have to strengthen their mind much before they will be ready to assimilate such wholesome nourishment.
The Angostura Address (1819)
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 political talents much superior to our own.
Let the entire system of government be strengthened, and let the balance of power be drawn up in such a manner that it will be permanent and incapable of decay because of its own tenuity.
The Angostura Address (1819)
There will be a metamorphosis in the physical life of the inhabitants of America, in which a new caste will be produced, with a mixture of all races, creating the homogeneity of the people