Hugo Chavez Quotes

Simon Bolivar belongs to the band of modern men whose equals are to be found only when we reach back to republican times of Greece and Rome... In the midst of people who had no more tradition than the respect for an authority sanctioned by the acquiescence of three centuries of ignorance, superstition, and fanaticism, nor any political dogma but submission to an order of things supported by might and force, Bolivar succeeded in defying that power

All the efforts of Lafayette, Kosciuszko and Garibaldi, and all the faith of Mazzini, Mickiewicz and Michelet, were defeated by the fundamental truth that the people they sought to liberate and make happy were simply not interested.

Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

At one time in the history of the Americas, weapons and armies were associated with liberty and independence, and with new opportunities for our peoples. At one time in the history of the Americas, there were liberating armies.

Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.

I accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America.

The liquidation of colonialism is a trend of the times which no force can hold back.

General San Martin will never shed the blood of his compatriots, and he will unsheath his sword only against the enemies of the independence of South America.

The achievement of independence for my own country will be fragmentary and incomplete so long as one square inch of African soil remains unfree.

The glorious spectacle of eighteen millions of people, struggling to burst their chains and be free.

You will be emancipated from tyranny and oppression …

Precisely fifteen years ago, at this very hour, you could still hear the echoes of the last shots of the battle that smashed one of Yankee imperialism's most sinister and traitorous actions against a Latin American people. Giro'n went down in history as the first defeat of Yankee imperialism on this continent …. The option between the past and the future, reaction or progress, treason or loyalty to principles, capitalism or socialism, imperialist domination or liberation, was what was decided at Giro'n on April 19, 1961.

I want to govern provincially no more. I want national independence … I took time for this decision because I know all the perils of this mission. I want to ask you to struggle also in order that our country can be born in the near future

The American Revolution was a conservative revolution.

The West shall be free from the British Isles.

The Liberator [Simon Bolivar] arises every time the people regain consciousness,.

Along with independence of India from the British Colonial rule, physical and mental development of masses is necessary for rebuilding the nation

The great object of my life has been the independence of my country; for that I have sacrificed everything that is most dear to man…. The connection with England has been her bane.

If you still hesitate for any time, there will be no way to rescue the Republic from the French yoke.

Simon Bolivar turned over all of his land. He freed all of his slaves, and he turned them into soldiers, and he brought them here. He brought them to Peru and Carabobo, and he worked together with the troops of San Martin to liberate this continent. That is Simon Bolivar.

Democracy is not the end point of mankind. There may be developments in many different directions in the coming centuries. Democracy has only existed for about 200 years. It started out with the American Declaration of Independence. The Americans got their ideas from the Europeans, in the main from the French, the Dutch and the British.

All the people who fought for freedom were my heroes. I mean, that was the sort of story I liked reading... freedom struggles and so on.

The Arab Spring reminds me a bit of the decolonisation process where one country gets independence, and everybody else wants it.

The war against British rule must continue until freedom is achieved.

The cause of the WPK is a sacred historic cause for fully realizing the independence of the masses of the people, the cause of the Juche revolution.