Notable Quotes

“A state too extensive in itself, or by virtue of its dependencies, ultimately falls into decay; its free government is transformed into a tyranny;  it disregards the principles which it should preserve, and finally degenerates into despotism. The distinguishing characteristic of small republics is stability: the character of large republics is mutability.”

Simón Bolivar

1783-1830

Letter from Jamaica

Summer 1815

*Source Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations