Talk:Simón Bolívar

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• I swear before you; I swear on the God of my parents; I swear on them; I swear on my honor and I swear on my country that I shall not give rest to my arm nor respite to my soul until I have broken the chains that oppress us by the will of the Spanish power.

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

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

• Legislators could certainly do with a school of morals.

• Morals and lights are our first necessities.

• The art of victory is learned in defeat.

• 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.

• An ignorant people is the blind instrument of its own destruction.
• The Ignorance the people live in leads them to commit mistakes against their own happiness

• Nations will march towards the apex of their greatness at the same pace as their education. Nations will soar if their education soars; they will regress if it regresses. Nations will fall and sink in darkness if education is corrupted or completely abandoned

• Talent without probity is a scourge.

• There is nothing as corrosive as praise. It sweetens the palate, but corrupts the soul.

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

• God grants victory to perseverance.