“All who have served the Revolution have plowed the sea.”

Statement written in his final days, as quoted in Simón Bolívar : A Story of Courage (1941) by Elizabeth Dey Jenkinson Waugh, p. 320; These are sometimes said to have been repeated many times while he was dying, and to be his last words.
Variant translations or reports:
America is ungovernable; those who served the revolution have plowed the sea.
As quoted in Man, State, and Society in Latin American History (1972) by Sheldon B. Liss and Peggy K. Liss, p. 133
Those who have served the cause of the revolution have plowed the sea.
We have plowed the sea.
I plowed furrows in the ocean.
I have plowed the sea. Our America will fall into the hands of vulgar tyrants.

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