Simon Bolivar Quotes, Thoughts and images

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion is a right.

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

The art of victory is learned in defeat.

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

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

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

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

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

God grants victory to perseverance.

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

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

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

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

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

He who serves a revolution ploughs a sea.

Morals and lights are our first necessities.

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

Do not adopt the best system of government, but the one most likely to succeed.

Damn it, how will I ever get out of this labyrinth?

Legislators could certainly do with a school of morals.

War lives on despotism and is not waged with God's love.

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

Republican democracy is ever perfect and demands political virtues and talents far superior to our own.

A state too expensive in itself, or by virtue of its dependencies, ultimately falls into decay.

Slavery is the offspring of darkness.

If Nature is opposed, we will fight her and make her obbey us.