Letter near the end of his life (November 9, 1830)
As you know, I have led for twenty years and have obtained only a few certain results:
America is ungovernable.
He who serves a revolution plows the sea.
The only thing one can do in America is emigrate.
This country will fall unfailingly into the hands of the unbridled crowd and then pass almost imperceptibly to tyrants of all colors and races.
Devoured by all crimes and extinguished by ferocity, the Europeans will not deign to conquer us.
If it were possible for one part of the world to return to primitive chaos, this would be the last period of America.
Gutiérrez Escudero, Antonio, ed. (2005), "6. Carta al general Juan José Flores, jefe del estado de Ecuador (Barranquilla, 9 de noviembre de 1830) [Letter to General Juan José Flores, head of state of Ecuador, Barranquilla, November 9, 1830"] (in Spanish), Simón Bolívar: aproximación al pensamiento del Libertador (approximations to the thoughts of the liberator), Escuela de Estudios Hispano-Americanos (CSIC), Sevilla, p. 12, retrieved on 2017-11-06
