Daniel Salamanca Urey Quotes

The political friend of today is the possible enemy of tomorrow. And vice versa. All those who work by a calculation of interest in politics must take that into account. Neither give your secrets to the friend nor give the adversary blows that cannot be forgotten.

Everyone is sensitive to pain: only the various kinds of misfortunes affect everyone differently and to varying degrees.

We must defend the Chaco because it is ours, and it is the heritage that our elders left us; not for us, men ephemeral that we will die tomorrow, if not for our children, for our grandchildren, for the old Bolivia.

From the ruins of a collapsing cause, the dust of recriminations always rises.

All those who are not criticized, err. Those who are not watched, abuse. Those who are spoiled, become fat. Those who are applauded, are puffed up. A true superiority of spirit is needed to save oneself from those consequences.

The strongest will, never fully does what it wants. It does what the circumstances allow.

Our politics is a field from which morality is completely exiled.

It is inherent to the human condition to admire precisely what you do not understand.

Nothing is more ridiculous than a tyrant, whose fear is gradually losing itself.

As night is coming and my strength is exhausted, with no hope of anything better, I have only to display the meager harvest that I have accidentally picked.

It is very easy to be a skilled man at the head of a powerful country. The difficult thing is to be one when representing a weak country.

The smallest evil that is inflicted on us seems to us a monstrous and horrible injustice. On the contrary, we are willing to consider the evils of others' light and to excuse and mitigate the injustices suffered by them.

In established interests are the most powerful force of resistance to good.

He who does not change in this changing world, perishes. He who does not know how to transform with the times has to be eliminated by them.

From extreme old age, sanity is requested. It is like asking for strength from weakness.