Stroessner Quotes & Sayings

We can't make any statements here. We can't talk about the internal politics of Paraguay. — Alfredo Stroessner

There was no reason for a revolution in Paraguay. — Alfredo Stroessner

There's a long history of resistance movements igniting in the soccer stadium. In the Red Star Revolution, Draza, Krle, and the other Belgrade soccer hooligans helped topple Slobodan Milosevic. Celebrations for Romania's 1990 WOrld Cup qualification carried over into the Bucharest squares, culminating in a firing squad that trained its rifles on the dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife. The movement that toppled the Paraguayan dictator Alfredo Stroessner had the same sportive ground zero. — Franklin Foer

I was always confident that I knew. I never expected this. — Alfredo Stroessner

I have to think of my status as a resident in this country. But I do insist that in Paraguay there was order; the judiciary had the power of complete independence; justice was fully exercised. — Alfredo Stroessner