Simón Bolívar

"The destruction of a government, whose origin is lost in the darkness of time, the subversion of established principles, the mutation of customs, the disorder of opinion, and the end of freedom in a country of slaves, is A work so impossible to execute suddenly that it is beyond the reach of all human power; So that our excuse that we have not obtained what we have wished is inherently to the cause we follow, for just as justice justifies the audacity of having undertaken it, the impossibility of its acquisition qualifies the insufficiency of means. "
Simón Bolívar, Carúpano 7-9-1814.