The 93 best phrases of Simón Bolívar

Simón Bolívar was a military man, war strategist and politician of Venezuelan origin and one of the founders of Gran Colombia and Bolivia. However, he is best known for being one of the leading figures in the Spanish-American emancipation of the Spanish conquest. He is better known as the ‘Liberator’, since he gave a strong inspiration to various South American countries to achieve their independence.

• We recommend you read: "The 90 best famous phrases of Napoleon Bonaparte"

Famous quotes and reflections of Simón Bolívar

Next we will see a compilation with the best famous phrases of Simón Bolívar, which bring us a little closer to his life and ideologies.

1. An ignorant people is a blind instrument of its own destruction.

Ignorance brings a very high cost to progress.

2. Freedom is the only objective worthy of the sacrifice of the lives of men.

Freedom was the goal that inspired Bolívar.

3. Confidence has to give us peace. Good faith is not enough, it must be shown, because men always see and rarely think.

Confidence is demonstrated by good deeds.

4. The dictatorship is the stumbling block of the Republics.

The dictatorship impoverishes any nation.

5. Colombians! My last wishes are for the happiness of the country. If my death contributes to the end of the parties and the consolidation of the Union, I will go down to the grave in peace.

Encouraging the Colombian people to achieve their independence.

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

There are those who take democracy as an excuse to seize the wealth of a country.

7. I swear to God, I swear to my parents, and I swear on my honor that I will not rest as long as I live until I have liberated my homeland.

An oath to bring peace to Venezuela.

8. Slavery is the daughter of darkness.

Against slavery.

9. The freedom of the New World is the hope of the universe.

An example to follow for the whole world.

10. The most perfect system of government is the one that produces the highest amount of happiness possible, the highest amount of social security, and the highest amount of political stability.

The most effective way of governing.

11. For the achievement of the triumph it has always been essential to go through the path of sacrifices.

Sometimes we have to sacrifice something to get something better.

12. Ambition, intrigue, abuse the credulity and inexperience of men without any political, economic or civil knowledge.

Ambition can blind people's values.

13. Flee from the country where only one exercises all the powers: it is a country of slaves.

When a single person clings to his mandate, it is because he wants to seize power.

14. The glory is in being great and being useful.

Everyone's main motivation should be the desire to be better.

15. America is ungovernable.

A refusal to remain under the Spanish yoke.

16. The teaching of good customs or social habits is as essential as instruction.

You should never stop giving importance to values.

17. The people must be obeyed even when they err.

The people must always have a voice and vote.

18. Blessed is he who, running through the pitfalls of war, politics, and public misfortune, preserves his honor intact.

The hardships should not be a reason to corrupt our soul.

19. The United States seems destined by Providence to plague America with miseries in the name of freedom.

A critique of the United States.

20. The title of Liberator is superior to all that human pride has received.

Proud of their title.

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

Differences are not an excuse to separate us.

22. The violence of force carries with it the principles of his own destruction.

Violence only breeds misfortune.

23. A man without studies is an incomplete being.

Studies provide us with a sure path to a better future.

24. The art of winning is learned in defeats.

The correct way to view losses.

25. I am always faithful to the liberal and just system that my homeland proclaimed.

A goal that he never lost sight of.

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

Justice must be everything in any society.

27. God grant victory to perseverance.

Perseverance is key to achieving our goals.

28. The man of honor has no other country than one in which the rights of citizens are protected and the sacred character of humanity is respected.

The essence of every good ruler.

29. Yes, to the grave... It is what my fellow citizens have given me... But I forgive them.

He was always on the lookout for any kind of betrayal around him.

30. The fledgling soldier believes everything is lost since he is defeated once.

Failure doesn't mean you'll never be good at it.

31. It is difficult to do justice to who has offended us.

Justice must always be impartial.

32. Let's throw fear behind our backs and save the country.

The first enemy to defeat is fear.

33. All the peoples of the world who have fought for freedom have finally exterminated their tyrants.

Revolutions must be established to destroy tyranny.

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

The state is all the people who live in it.

35. When tyranny becomes law, rebellion is a right.

No tyranny should last forever.

36. I have plowed in the sea and I have sown in the wind.

You have to overcome obstacles to be successful.

37. From absolute Freedom one always descends to absolute power, and the middle between these two terms is Supreme Social Freedom.

The path to freedom from society.

38. The one who commands must hear even the harshest truths and, after hearing them, he must take advantage of them to correct the evils that errors produce.

Rulers must act as filters for their citizens.

39. Public jobs belong to the State; they are not private property. No one who does not have probity, aptitudes and merits is worthy of them.

The essence of public jobs.

40. Our life is nothing other than the heritage of our country.

Countries are part of our identity.

41. As I love freedom I have noble and liberal feelings; and if I am usually severe, it is only with those who intend to destroy us.

A goal that went according to his ideals.

42. It is always noble to conspire against tyranny, against usurpation and against a desolate and harmless war.

The only exception to conspiracies.

43. The continuity of authority in the same individual has often been the end of democratic governments.

Opinion on democratic governments.

44. I despised the degrees and distinctions. He aspired to a more honorable destiny: to shed my blood for the freedom of my country.

Bolívar never wanted recognition, but to liberate the nation from him.

45. We are dominated by the vices that are contracted under the leadership of a nation like Spain, which has only excelled in fierceness, ambition, revenge and envy.

Vices that seem to be alive today.

46. If the Senate, instead of being elective, were hereditary, it would be in my opinion the base, the bond, the soul of our Republic.

Reference on the constitution of the Senate.

47. A happy soldier does not acquire any right to command his homeland. He is not the arbiter of the laws or the government. He is a defender of his freedom.

The true identity of a soldier.

48. Calling yourself a boss in order not to be one is the height of misery.

The greatest hypocrisy.

49. Nations march toward greatness as their education advances.

Education is essential for the development of a country.

50. Chess is a useful and honest game, indispensable in the education of the youth.

Bolívar was a chess fan.

51. By ignorance they have dominated us more than by force.

The extent of the evil generated by ignorance.

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

The morality of a nation carries great weight.

53. The military system is that of force, and force is not government.

The military system is not the same as the government.

54. Repeated elections are essential in popular systems, because nothing is as dangerous as allowing power to remain with the same citizen for a long time.

The importance of the elections.

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

The peoples must remain united, because that is how they have their power.

56. Ingratitude is the greatest crime that men can dare to commit.

Ingratitude is the beginning of the loss of values.

57. We are not Indians or Europeans, but a middle species between the legitimate owners of the country and the Spanish usurpers.

A race come from the mix.

58. The three great fools in history have been Jesus Christ, Don Quixote... and me.

An interesting way to perceive yourself.

59. Legislators certainly need a school of morals.

A critique of the actions of legislators.

60. The first of all forces is public opinion.

The opinion of the people must always be considered.

61. Union! Union! or anarchy will devour you.

Tyranny attacks weak peoples.

62. The peoples obeying the current government, to free themselves from anarchy.

A good government needs loyal followers.

63. We need to gather all our forces to achieve a coup capable of changing the fortunes of the country.

Revolutions are achieved by being all united.

64. The correct way to rule is to use honest men, even if they are enemies.

Governments must be an example of courage and morality.

65. Doing well and learning the truth are the only advantages that providence has granted us on earth.

Do good deeds whenever you can.

66. May they send me to save the Republic and save the whole of America!

His confidence about changing the destiny of America.

67. Liberator of Venezuela: title more glorious and satisfying, for me than the scepter of all the empires of the Earth.

Showing pride at the title he earned from him.

68. The military spirit in the civil command is unbearable.

For Bolívar, the military should be a force apart from the civilians.

69. Cursed be the soldier who turns his weapons against his people.

No soldier should attempt against the people of his nation.

70. Let us form a homeland at all costs and everything else will be tolerable.

Your most important mission.

71. Union must save us, just as division will destroy us if it gets among us.

Only in union do you get the strength to get ahead.

72. The people get used to obeying him and he gets used to commanding it; from where usurpation and tyranny originate.

The beginning of dictatorships.

73. If nature is opposed, we will fight against it and make it obey us.

Talking about conquering adversity with the goal of liberating the nations of Latin America.

74. Perfectly representative institutions are not adequate to our current character, customs and lights.

Institutions must represent the essence of his nation.

75. As we are Americans by birth and our rights those of Europe, we have to dispute these with those of the country and hold on to it against the invasion of the invaders.

A difficult balance.

76. The Homeland is America.

A sample of how Bolívar saw his continent.

77. From the heroic to the ridiculous there is only one step.

A truth that we can take as a lesson.

78. The fairest punishment is the one you impose yourself.

Each person is punished depending on his conscience.

79. I represent my compatriots, relatives and friends, before posterity.

Showing the character of a leader.

80. In the shadow of the mystery, nothing but crime works.

Crime always finds a way to make itself present.

81. Let us not aspire to the impossible, lest, by rising above the region of freedom, we descend into the region of tyranny.

You always have to have realistic goals.

82. He who abandons everything to be useful to his country, he loses nothing and gains whatever he consecrates to him.

On the honor of those who fight for his homeland.

83. You must all work for the inestimable good of the union.

Each person contributes to the development of his nation.

84. Compatriots. Arms will give you independence, laws will give you freedom.

The proper use of each element.

85. Morale and lights are our first needs.

A society needs values ​​and education to emerge.

86. Native soil first than anything.

Giving the place that corresponds to the natives.

87. Unity does everything and, therefore, we must preserve this precious principle.

Well the saying goes, 'in unity is strength'.

88. He who serves a revolution conquers the sea.

A revolution started for a just cause will triumph.

89. You will always see the ignorant and foolish fume talented and alive.

Ignorant people will always believe themselves more than others.

90. Will this nation be able to do the exclusive trade of half the world, without manufactures, without territorial productions, without arts, without sciences, without politics?

It is necessary to both export and import.

91. The Indian is of a mild character who desires only rest and solitude.

On the real wishes of the indigenous people.

92. The benefits that are made today, are received tomorrow, because God rewards virtue in this world itself.

Remember that you sow what you reap.

93. Liberator is more than everything; and, for the same reason, I will not degrade myself to a throne.

Bolívar observed his title as a duty to uphold his ideals. Not like the right to rule over his people.