Simon Bolivar Quotes

After centuries the time has come when India has gained independence from foreign rule and it's the time when we all [the Independent Princely States) should unite for our motherland""

Unity was the real key to the success of the United States. The constitution of 1787 was in many respects the imposition of a central national government upon the quarrelsome states... In a country so constituted, the weaknesses of one state were compensated for by the strengths of another.

Canada is not another [American] State, and we don't want to be one.

I want to reaffirm, as king, my faith in the unity of Spain.

Limitless enlargement of Europe means the death of political Europe.

It is a hard and difficult thing to do to create a nation

The French will only be united under the threat of danger. Nobody can simply bring together a country that has 265 kinds of cheese.

The union of so many states will be seen in the eyes of the world—a wonder.

A government, to afford the needful protection and exercise proper care for the welfare of a people, must have homogeneity in its constituents. It is this necessity which has divided the human race into separate nations, and finally has defeated the grandest efforts which conquerors have made to give unlimited extent to their domain.

There can be no real federal state except when all elements of the people are united by a common patriotism. If there is no diversity federalism is unnecessary. If there is no common patriotism, federalism is dangerous because it is bound to result in the separatism of certain elements.

One and Indivisible

… far from making one single Republic, this land has reverted to a state of many little republics of towns and localities.

If we allow Catalonia - and it is none of our business - to separate, others will do the same. I do not want that.

The only possible idea of India is that of a nation greater than the sum of its parts.

Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.

Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin.

A union is necessary for the purposes of a national defense. United, we are strong; divided, we are weak. It is easy for hostile nations to sweep off a number of separate states, one after another…. This shows us the necessity of combining our whole force, and, as to national purposes, becoming one state.

Americans never can be united into one compact empire, under any species of government whatever. Their fate seems to be -- a disunited people till the end of time.

The State or the States.

Like the tailor who uses his needle to sew together pieces of cloth, so I use my sword to unite my divided provinces.

What matter if they hang me, provided the rope by which I am hung bind this new Germany firmly to your throne.

… half-formed pseudo nations

State Creation: A growth Industry.

If it becomes a question of destruction of this union or the preservation of the country, the country is going to be preserved.

Our economy of allegiance simply is not infinitely expandable. If we become more Virginian or Georgian, surely we will also feel more remote, less responsible for the poor of Kentucky or of the ghettoes of Chicago. If we became more Virginian, we would be less American.