Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Antonio de Oliveira Salazar
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Portuguese politician Antonio de Oliveira Salazar.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
António de Oliveira Salazar was a Portuguese dictator who served as President of the Council of Ministers from 1932 to 1968. Having come to power under the Ditadura Nacional, he reframed the regime as the Estado Novo, a corporatist dictatorship that ruled Portugal from 1933 until 1974. Salazar was a political economy professor at University of Coimbra.
The day I leave the power, inside my pockets will only be dust.
The United Nations is useless...and also harmful. It is a land that flowers demagoguery with a bunch of newborn countries, devoid of any tradition.
In politics, what appears is.
I know what I want, and where to go.
State is the nation socially organized.
I have the grace of providence to be poor.
Who is not patriotic can not be considered Portuguese.
Teach your children to work, teach your daughters modesty, teach all the virtue of economy. And if not make them saints, at least make them Christians.
Portugal was born in the shadow of the Catholic Church and religion, from the beginning it was the formative element of the soul of the nation and the dominant trait of character of the Portuguese people.