Simón Bolívar Quotes

Let us give to our republic a fourth power with authority over the youth, the hearts of men, public spirit, habits, and republican morality. Let us establish this Areopagus to watch over the education of the children, to supervise national education, to purify whatever may be corrupt in the republic, to denounce ingratitude, coldness in the country's service, egotism, sloth, idleness, and to pass judgment upon the first signs of corruption and pernicious example.

Primero el suelo nativo que nada. Nuestra vida no es otra cosa que la herencia de nuestro país.

Slavery is the daughter of darkness: an ignorant people is a blind instrument of its own destruction

Um povo ignorante é um instrumento cego da sua própria destruição

The most grievous error committed by Venezuela in making her start on the political stage was, as none can deny, her fatal adoption of the system of tolerance—a system long condemned as weak and inadequate by every man of common sense, yet tenaciously maintained with an unparalleled blindness to the very end.

Absolute democratic government is as much a tyranny as despotism.

un estado demasiado extenso en sí mismo o por sus dependencias, al cabo viene en decadencia y convierte su forma libre en otra tiránica; relaja los principios que deben conservarla y ocurre, por último, al despotismo.

Damn it! How will I ever get out of this labyrinth?

Ako sa dostanem z toho labyrintu?!

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

En cuanto a la heroica y desdichada Venezuela, sus acontecimientos han sido tan rápidos, y sus devastaciones tales, que casi la han reducido a una absoluta indigencia y a una soledad espantosa; no obstante que era uno de los más bellos países de cuantos hacían el orgullo de la América.

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. Fight, and you shall win. For God grants victory to perseverance.

How will I ever get out of this labyrinth?

It is not right to leave everything to the chances and hazards of an election. The masses are more prone to error than those who have been trained and tempered by education.

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.