Simon Bolivar
Simon Bolivar
Simón Bolívar), in full Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar y Palacios, was a Venezuelan military and political leader who played a leading role in the establishment of Venezuela, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Panama as sovereign states, independent of Spanish rule...
NationalityVenezuelan
ProfessionWar Hero
Date of Birth24 July 1783
CityCaracas, Venezuela
CountryVenezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
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Is it conceivable that a newly emancipated people can soar to the heights of liberty, and, unlike Icarus, neither have its wings melt nor fall into an abyss? Such a marvel is inconceivable and without precedent. There is no reasonable probability to bolster our hopes.
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The Ignorance the people live in leads them to commit mistakes against their own happiness
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The first duty of a government is to give education to the people.
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A people that loves freedom will in the end be free.
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The continuation of authority has frequently proved the undoing of democratic governments. Repeated elections are essential to the system of popular governments, because there is nothing so dangerous as to suffer power to be vested for a long time in one citizen. The people become accustomed to obeying him, and he becomes accustomed to commanding, hence the origin of usurpation and tyranny.
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An ignorant people is the blind instrument of its own destruction.
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Judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.
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Legislators could certainly do with a school of morals.
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Morals and lights are our first necessities.
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Out of the most secure things, the most secure is to doubt.
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If Nature is opposed, we will fight her and make her obbey us.
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Our hatred knows no bounds, and the war shall be to the death.
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Republican democracy is overperfect and demands political virtues and talents far superior to our own.
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Slavery is the offspring of darkness.