Simon Bolivar Quotes

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• When tyranny becomes law, rebellion is a right.

  Simon Bolivar

  Law, Rebellion, Tyranny

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• A people that loves freedom will in the end be free.

  Simon Bolivar

  People, Ends, Love Freedom

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• The art of victory is learned in defeat.

  Simon Bolivar

  Art, Victory, Defeat

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• An ignorant people is the blind instrument of its own destruction.

  Simon Bolivar

  People, Ignorant, Blind

  Simón Bolívar, Frederick H. Fornoff, David Bushnell (2003). “El Libertador: Writings of Simón Bolívar”, p.34, Oxford University Press, USA

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• 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

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• Flee the country where a lone man holds all power: It is a nation of slaves.

  Simon Bolivar

  Country, Men, Slave

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• To do something right it must be done twice. The first time instructs the second.

  Simon Bolivar

  Done, Firsts, First Time

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• In the unity of our nations rests the glorious future of our peoples.

  Simon Bolivar

  Unity, Glorious, Nations

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• 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

  "The World's Great Speeches". Book edited by Lewis Copeland and Lawrence Lamm, 1958.

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• It is harder to maintain the balance of freedom than it is to endure the weight of tyranny.

  Simon Bolivar

  Balance, Weight, Endure

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• The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.

  Simon Bolivar

  Names, America, Liberty

  Simon Bolivar's statement (1829) as quoted in John Gerassi "The Great Fear: The Reconquest of Latin America by Latin Americans", 1963.

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• God grants victory to perseverance.

  Simon Bolivar

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  "Simon Bolivar". Book by Gerhard Masur, 1948.

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• 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.

  Simon Bolivar

  Enemy, Matter, Spirit

  "Simon Bolivar". Book by Gerhard Masur, 1948.

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• The Ignorance the people live in leads them to commit mistakes against their own happiness

  Simon Bolivar

  Mistake, Ignorance, People

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• The first duty of a government is to give education to the people.

  Simon Bolivar

  Government, People, Giving

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• 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

  Simon Bolivar's final proclamation to the people of Colombia (December 8, 1830) as quoted in Thomas Rourke "Man of Glory: Simon Bolivar", 1939.

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• The freedom of the New World is the hope of the Universe.

  Simon Bolivar

  World, New World, Universe

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• 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

  Simon Bolivar's letter from Jamaica, Summer 1815.

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• It is harder to release a nation from servitude than to enslave a free nation.

  Simon Bolivar

  Release, Harder, Nations

  Simón Bolívar (1951). “Selected Writings: 1810-1822”

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• If Nature is against us, we shall fight Nature and make it obey.

  Simon Bolivar

  Nature, Fighting, Ifs

  "Birth of a World: Bolivar in Terms of His Peoples". Book by Waldo David Frank, p. 55, 1951.

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• He who serves a revolution ploughs a sea.

  Simon Bolivar

  Sea, Revolution

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• Our hatred knows no bounds, and the war shall be to the death.

  Simon Bolivar

  War, Hatred, Resistance

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• Morals and lights are our first necessities.

  Simon Bolivar

  Light, Firsts, Moral

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• Out of the most secure things, the most secure is to doubt.

  Simon Bolivar

  Doubt, Secure

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• Legislators could certainly do with a school of morals.

  Simon Bolivar

  School, Moral, Legislators

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