Simon Bolivar famous quotes

04-05-2025

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 disregards the principles which it should preserve, and finally degenerates into despotism. The distinguishing characteristic of small republics is stability: the character of large republics is mutability.
-- Simon Bolivar

#Fall #Character #Government
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 regress if it regresses. Nations will fall and sink in darkness if education is corrupted or completely abandoned
-- Simon Bolivar

#Fall #Greatness #Darkness
A people that loves freedom will in the end be free.
-- Simon Bolivar

#People #Ends #Love Freedom
The Ignorance the people live in leads them to commit mistakes against their own happiness
-- Simon Bolivar

#Mistake #Ignorance #People
It is harder to maintain the balance of freedom than it is to endure the weight of tyranny.
-- Simon Bolivar

#Balance #Weight #Endure
Legislators could certainly do with a school of morals.
-- Simon Bolivar

#School #Moral
Morals and lights are our first necessities.
-- Simon Bolivar

#Light #Firsts #Moral
The art of victory is learned in defeat.
-- Simon Bolivar

#Art #Victory #Defeat
The freedom of the New World is the hope of the Universe.
-- Simon Bolivar

#World #Universe
To do something right it must be done twice. The first time instructs the second.
-- Simon Bolivar

#Firsts #Done #First Time
When mankind was in its infancy, steeped in uncertainty, ignorance, and error, was it possible to foresee what system it would adopt for preservation.
-- Simon Bolivar

#Ignorance #Errors #Preservation
Damn it, how will I ever get out of this labyrinth
-- Simon Bolivar

#Labyrinth #Bedtime
Our hatred knows no bounds, and the war shall be to the death.
-- Simon Bolivar

#War #Hatred #Resistance
If Nature is against us, we shall fight Nature and make it obey.
-- Simon Bolivar

#Nature #Fighting
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 nothing so dangerous as to suffer power to be vested for a long time in one citizen. The people become accustomed to obeying him, and he becomes accustomed to commanding, hence the origin of usurpation and tyranny.
-- Simon Bolivar

#Government #Long #People
God grants victory to perseverance.
-- Simon Bolivar

#Positive #Perseverance #Victory
War lives on despotism and is not waged with God's love.
-- Simon Bolivar

#War #Despotism
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.
-- Simon Bolivar

#Government #Perfect #Political
Flee the country where a lone man holds all power: It is a nation of slaves.
-- Simon Bolivar

#Country #Men #Slave
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.
-- Simon Bolivar

#Wish #Unions #Lasts
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 into an abyss? Such a marvel is inconceivable and without precedent. There is no reasonable probability to bolster our hopes.
-- Simon Bolivar

#Fall #Wings #People
It is harder to release a nation from servitude than to enslave a free nation.
-- Simon Bolivar

#Release #Harder #Servitude
Slavery is the offspring of darkness.
-- Simon Bolivar

#Darkness #Slavery #Offspring
The three greatest fools of History have been Jesus Christ, Don Quixote . . . and me!
-- Simon Bolivar

#Jesus #Three #Fool
When tyranny becomes law, rebellion is a right.
-- Simon Bolivar

#Law #Rebellion #Tyranny
The first duty of a government is to give education to the people.
-- Simon Bolivar

#Government #Giving #People
The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty
-- Simon Bolivar

#Names #America #Liberty

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