Damn it! How will I ever get out of this labyrinth?

— Simón Bolívar

Slavery is the daughter of darkness: an ignorant people is a blind instrument of its own destruction

— Simón Bolívar

The real discoverer of South America was [Alexander on] Humboldt, since his work was more useful for our people than the work of all conquerors.

— Simón Bolívar