Simón Bolívar's most famous quotes
The top 3 according to 14 votes from people: If one man were necessary to sustain the State, that State should not exist. · Perfectly representative institutions do not suit our present character, customs and enlightenment. · I swear… that I will not rest my arm nor give repose to my soul until I have broken the chains that oppress us.. (Updated Dec 1, 2019.)
From the oath on Monte Sacro to the Jamaica Letter and his letters to Páez: the Liberator's most quoted lines, with their source where known, and a warning on those that are only attributed to him.
Automatically translated (original in Español). See the original
Top 13
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If one man were necessary to sustain the State, that State should not exist.
Collected in anthologies of his writings.
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Perfectly representative institutions do not suit our present character, customs and enlightenment.
Jamaica Letter, 6 September 1815.
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I swear… that I will not rest my arm nor give repose to my soul until I have broken the chains that oppress us.
Oath on Monte Sacro, Rome, 1805.
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Flee the country where one man holds all the powers: it is a country of slaves.
Collected in anthologies of his writings.
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5
An ignorant people is a blind instrument of its own destruction.
Collected in anthologies of his writings.
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6
To be called a leader without being one is the height of wretchedness.
Letter to José Antonio Páez, 1 April 1828.
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Our discords spring from the two richest sources of public calamity: ignorance and weakness.
Collected in anthologies of his writings.
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If nature opposes us, we will fight it and make it obey us!
Attributed, after the 1812 Caracas earthquake.
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9
Though war is the sum of all evils, tyranny is the sum of all wars.
Collected in anthologies of his writings.
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10
The three great fools of history have been Jesus Christ, Don Quixote… and I.
Attributed: supposedly his last words to his doctor.
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11
The art of winning is learned in defeat.
Collected in the Liberator's correspondence.
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12
Justice is the queen of republican virtues, and with it equality and liberty are upheld.
Collected in anthologies of his writings.
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13
It is harder to keep liberty in balance than to bear the weight of tyranny.
Collected in anthologies of his writings.
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