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. - Daniel Salamanca Urey

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.

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.