Simón Bolívar

“Nations will march towards the apex of their greatness at the same pace as their education.”

“I swear before you; I swear by the God of my fathers; I swear on my honor and I swear by my country, that I will not rest, not in body or soul, until I have broken the chains that bind us.”

“He who serves a revolution plows the sea.”

“The best government is that which produces the greatest possible sum of happiness.”

“War lives on despotism and is not waged with God's love.”

“The United States seems destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.”

“Let us lay the cornerstone of American freedom without fear. To hesitate is to perish.”

“It is harder to maintain the balance of freedom than to endure the weight of tyranny.”

“When tyranny becomes law, rebellion is a right.”

“A people that loves freedom will in the end be free.”

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

“God grants victory to perseverance.”

“Morality and lights are our first necessities.”

“An ignorant people is the blind instrument of its own destruction.”

“Do not adopt the best system of government, but the one that is most likely to succeed.”

“To do justice is a virtue; to practice it is a duty; to require it is a right.”

“The art of victory is learned in defeat.”

“Damn the man who takes up a sword in the defense of a liberty which he himself has violated.”