Quotes from Simon Bolivar

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

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

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.

God grants victory to perseverance.

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

Let the entire system of government be strengthened, and let the balance of power be drawn up in such a manner that it will be permanent and incapable of decay because of its own tenuity.

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

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.

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

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

The three greatest fools (majaderos) of history have been Jesus Christ, Don Quixote - and I!

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

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

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

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

Judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.

The great citizen, the first-born son of the New World.

Judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.

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.

The art of victory is learned in defeat.

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

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