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Simón Bolívar

Simón Bolívar

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Hasten from the country where one person alone exercises all the powers: it is a country of slaves.

Simón Bolívar

Simón Bolívar

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Our discords have their origin in the two most abundant sources of public calamity: ignorance and weakness.

Simón Bolívar

Simón Bolívar

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It's difficult to do justice to someone who has offended us.

Simón Bolívar

Simón Bolívar

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The art of winning is learned in defeats.

Simón Bolívar

Simón Bolívar

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It is more difficult to maintain the balance of freedom than to bear the weight of tyranny.

Simón Bolívar

Simón Bolívar

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If a man were necessary to sustain the State, that State should not exist; and in the end, it would not exist.

Simón Bolívar

Simón Bolívar

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I scorned degrees and distinctions. I aspired to a more honorable fate: to shed my blood for the freedom of my country.

Simón Bolívar

Simón Bolívar

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In the order of human vicissitudes, it is not always the majority of the physical mass that decides, but rather it is the superiority of moral force that tilts the political balance towards itself.

Simón Bolívar

Simón Bolívar

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Let's form a homeland at all costs and everything else will be bearable.

Simón Bolívar

Simón Bolívar

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Justice is the queen of republican virtues, and with it, equality and freedom are sustained.

Simón Bolívar

Simón Bolívar

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The unity of our peoples is not a mere chimera of men, but an inexorable decree of destiny.

Simón Bolívar

Simón Bolívar

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The fairest punishment is the one that a person imposes on themselves.