Simon Bolivar Quotes

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

Slavery is the offspring of darkness.

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

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

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

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

Legislators could certainly do with a school of morals.

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

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

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

Morals and lights are our first necessities.

He who serves a revolution ploughs a sea.

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

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

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

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

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

God grants victory to perseverance.

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

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

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

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

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

The art of victory is learned in defeat.

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

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion is a right.