It is harder to maintain the balance of liberty than to bear the weight of tyranny.
Es más difícil mantener el equilibrio de la libertad que soportar el peso de la tiranía.
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Simón Bolívar
South American liberator (1783-1830). Born into Venezuelan creole wealth and orphaned young, he led the wars of independence that freed Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia from Spanish rule, and was the chief architect of the short-lived Gran Colombia, his attempted federation of Spanish-American republics. Hailed throughout Latin America as El Libertador, he died disillusioned in 1830 of tuberculosis with his federation collapsing around him. His legacy includes a country named after him, two national currencies, and a permanent place at the centre of every Latin American political debate over centralism, caudillismo and continental unity.
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Simón Bolívar's Other Quotes
All who have served the Revolution have plowed the sea.
Slavery is the daughter of darkness; an ignorant people is the blind instrument of its own destruction.
I swear before you, by the God of my fathers, by my honour and by my country, that I will not rest my arm nor my soul until I have broken the chains that bind us by the will of the Spanish power.
If Nature opposes us, we will fight against her and make her obey us.
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