Tao Te Ching
Simon Bolivar Simón Bolívar
1783 – 1830 CE
El Libertador
Major image in Latin American identity, military strategy genius, and liberator from Spanish rule of Venezuela, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Panama; Simón Bolívar became the major hero in the 19th century South American independence movements. Inspired by the idealism of the American and French Revolutions, he fought against factions, created foundations for democracy in Latin America, envisioned and worked toward a kind of United States of South America. These efforts however mainly failed, countries devolved into dictatorships, and Bolivar was almost assassinated. He described these attempts at union a failure and only “plowing the sea.” On the other hand, his legacy remains strong with major monuments to him in the capital cities of Lima, Buenos Aires, Havana, México City, Panama City, Paramaribo, San José, Santo Domingo, Sucre, Algiers, Ankara, Bucharest, London, Minsk, Moscow, New Delhi, Ottawa, Paris, Prague, Port-au-Prince, Rome, Tehran, Vienna, and Washington DC.
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Speech, 1819
Speech, 1819
Quotes by Simon Bolivar (8 quotes)
“Slavery is the daughter of darkness: an ignorant people is a blind instrument of its own destruction… they take license for liberty, treachery for patriotism, and vengeance for justice.”
from Speech, 1819
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“We have been ruled more by deceit than by force, and we have been degraded more by vice than by superstition. Ambition and intrigue abuses the credulity and experience of men lacking all political, economic, and civic knowledge”
from Speech, 1819
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“If my death contributes to the end of partisanship and the consolidation of the union, I shall be lowered in peace into my grave.”
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“Those who serve a revolution only plow the seas. I plowed furrows in the ocean... Independence is the only benefit we have acquired, to the detriment of all the rest.”
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“The distinguishing characteristic of small republics is stability: the character of large republics is mutability.”
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“The three greatest idiots in history, have been Jesus Christ, Don Quixote, and myself.”
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“Spirit cannot be compared with matter. You are free, they are slaves. Fight, and you shall win. For God grants victory to perseverance.”
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“The continuation of authority in the same person has frequently proved the undoing of democratic governments. Repeated elections are essential to the system of popular governments, because there is nothing so dangerous as to suffer Power to be vested for a long time in one citizen. The people become accustomed to obeying him, and he becomes accustomed to commanding, hence the origin of usurpation and tyranny.”
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Quotes about Simon Bolivar (3 quotes)
“To see the dastardly, most miserable and meanest of blackguards described as Napoleon I was altogether too much. Bolívar is a veritable Soulouque.”
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“When Napoleon set up his brother Joseph upon the Spanish throne in 1810, the Washington of South America was General Bolivar and Spain was unable to suppress his revolt”
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“The three greatest idiots in history, have been Jesus Christ, Don Quixote, and myself.”
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