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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The three biggest fools in the world have been Jesus Christ, Don Quixote, and... me.
The three greatest fools of History have been Jesus Christ, Don Quixote . . . and me!
America is ungovernable by us.
It must never be forgotten that the excellence of a government consists, not in its theoretic perfection, but in the degree to which it is adapted to the nature and character of the people for whom it is set up.
Do not compare your material forces with those of the enemy. Spirit cannot be compared with matter. You are human beings, they are beasts. You are free, they are slaves. Fight, and you shall win. For God grants victory to perseverance.
Simón Bolívar (1969)
The shouts of human-kind on the battlefield, or in the tumult of assemblies are protests to heaven against inconsistent legislators who have thought it possible to experiment with chimerical constitutions without suffering the consequences
We have been ruled more by deceit than by force, and we have been degraded more by vice than by superstition. Slavery is the daughter of darkness: an ignorant people is a blind instrument of its own destruction.
The Angostura Address (1819)