The people become accustomed to obeying him, and he becomes accustomed to commanding, hence the origin of usurpation and tyranny. The Angostura Address (1819)
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)
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)
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)
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)