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“Flee the country where a lone man holds all power: It is a nation of slaves. - Speech spoken in Caracas on 1814, January 2nd.”

— Simón Bolívar

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Wikiquote: Simón Bolívar
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Context

Though there might be some published translation of such a statement, it resembles the remark of Maximilien Robespierre, as quoted in Robespierre‎ (1935) by James Matthew Thompson, p. 135: "There is one thing more despicable than a tyrant — it is a nation of slaves."

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Bolívar, Simón. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Simón Bolívar. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Simón_Bolívar

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