Quote #12
Morals and lights are our first necessities.
More from Simon Bolivar
- Legislators could certainly do with a school of morals.
- The art of victory is learned in defeat.
- It is harder to maintain the balance of freedom than it is to endure the weight of tyranny.
- The freedom of the New World is the hope of the Universe.
- In the course of history, there have been three radicals: Jesus Christ, Don Quixote, and... me.
- To do something right it must be done twice. The first time instructs the second.
- If Nature is against us, we shall fight Nature, and make it obey.
- The United States seems destined by Providence to plague the American continent with misery in the name of liberty. (1829)