António de Oliveira Salazar Quotes

António de Oliveira Salazar (1889-04-28 - 1970-06-27) was Prime-Minister and Dictator of Portugal between 1933 and 1968, developing the Estado Novo, a right-wing authoritarian regime.

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• Everything for the nation, nothing against the nation.
• God, Fatherland, Family.
  • Its original source is unknown, Salazar choosing it to describe and patronise the Estado Novo.
• He who is not a patriot, may not be considered a true Portuguese.
• I know very well what I want, and to where I am going.
• I owe providence and grace the honour of being poor.
• If you knew how hard it is to command, you would only want to obey.
• In politics, what seems to be is.
• Instruction to the most capable, position to the most competent, work to everyone - this is the essential.
• Let us not allow disorder enter where order prevails.
• Order those who can, obey those who should.
• Proudly alone!
• Teach your sons labour, teach your daughters modesty, teach to everyone the virtues of the economy. And if you cannot make them saints, at least make them good Christians.
• The day I leave power, those who search my pockets will only find dust.
• The Nation is not to be discussed.
• The State is the nation socially organised.
• The worst thing is to think that any social policy may be achieved with any economic policy, that any economic policy may be consolidated with any financial policy.
• There is nothing more useless than to discuss politics with politicians.
• To Angola, hastily in force!
• To each arm its how, to each family its home, to each mouth its bread.
• You cannot, at the same time, govern and enchant the crowd.
• You cannot be liberal and socialist at the same time; you cannot be monarchist and republican; you cannot be catholic and communist - from this you ought to conclude that opositions could not, in any way, consitute an alternative and that their impossible victory should signify, at the eyes of those behind them, the fall towards chaos, opening a new chapter of national disorder.
• You think on your children, I think on the children of all of you.

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