Quotes About Bolívar

Bolívar celebró, junto a la mayoría de independistas latinoamericanos, la política de Monroe y de John Quincy Adams, como una salvaguarda contra el peligro de nuevas intervenciones europeas en las Américas

Vive América, Bolívar, y también vive tu espada mientras haya un solo esclavo que te ultraje o un tirano que pretenda profanar la libertad. Bolívar, America Lives! and your sword also lives so long as a single slave rapes your ideal or a tyrant tries to profane liberty. (From A Simon Bolívar / To Simon Bolívar)

Nor were there many nation-builders like him in his day: Bismarck, Giuseppe Garibaldi and Simón Bolívar. His achievement may have been the more demanding because none of the others had to create a country out of a crazy quilt.

Bolivar's legacy has always been a part of the Venezuelan/Latin American imagery, especially in the countries that he liberated or he helped to liberate. He's been a very prominent figure.

En algunos territorios se desató una guerra civil de tipo racial que adoptaría su forma más cruda en Venezuela —«¡Viva el rey! ¡Mueran los blancos!», gritaban sus contrincantes en la lucha contra Bolívar en 1817—.

Simon Bolivar is the leader of the revolution of this land. He is the leader of the social revolution, the people's revolution, the historical revolution.

The United States was born with an imperialist impulse. There has been a long confrontation between Monroe and Bolivar... It is necessary that the Monroe Doctrine be broken.

Our voice is an independent voice to represent the dignity and the search for peace and the reformulation of the international system; to denounce persecution and aggression of hegemonistic forces on the planet. This is how Venezuela has presented itself. Bolivar's home has sought a nonpermanent seat on the Security Council.

Simon Bolivar, when history led him - and as Karl Marx said, men can make history, but only as far as history allows us to do so - when history took Bolivar and made him the leader of the independence process in Venezuela, he made that process revolutionary.

No sorprende que a lo largo de los años los latinoamericanos hayan aprendido a aceptar las imperfecciones humanas de sus líderes. Bolívar se lo enseñó.

En Bolívar veía al único líder que podía librar a la nación de la nauseabunda corrupción política, la insurgencia armada y la rampante ignorancia que la corroían[

Que tu hermano en Changó, Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar, te acompañe y te proteja y nunca aparte de tu corazón la patria de su hermano José Martí, Cuba —dice el babalao. Hugo respira profundamente e intuye que muy dentro de sí yace la esencia de la eternidad. Ahora sí se siente asistido por el espíritu inmortal de Bolívar.

La historia que nos enseñan, siempre dispuesta a defender las políticas de Buenos Aires, pretende que la reunión de Guayaquil fue "misteriosa" y sugiere una supuesta intervención de la masonería. También se ha hecho hincapié en la "altanera soberbia" de Bolívar en contraste con el "humilde y ejemplar renunciamiento" de nuestro San Martín.

Haiti was founderd by a righteous revolution in 1804 and became the first black republic. It was the first country to break the chains of slavery, the first to force Emperor Napoleon to retreat, and the only to aid Simón Bolívar in his struggle to liberate the indigenous people and slaves of Latin America from their colonial oppressors.