Antonio de Oliveira Salazar quotes
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“I have the grace of providence to be poor.”
-- Antonio de Oliveira SalazarSource : "Salazar and his time" by César de Oliveira, The Official Publisher, (p. 98), 1991.
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“In politics, what appears is.”
-- Antonio de Oliveira SalazarSource : "Salazar seen the Brazilian anthology of texts of Brazilian and Portuguese authors: anthology of texts of Brazilian and Portuguese authors of Armando Pinto" by Editor-Felman Rego, (p. 83), 1962.
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“I know what I want, and where to go.”
-- Antonio de Oliveira SalazarSource : "Salazar: biographical study" by Franco Nogueira, Atlantis Publishing, (p. 339), 1977.
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“Who is not patriotic can not be considered Portuguese.”
-- Antonio de Oliveira SalazarSource : "Political ideology of the state Salazar" by Jorge Campinos, Portugalia Editora (p. 22), 1975.
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“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.”
-- Antonio de Oliveira SalazarSource : "Memories of an unfinished war: Canada, the United States and the decolonization process in Angola" by Manuel Francisco Gomes, Collaborator Alberto João Jardim; Published by Edições Colibri, (p. 153), 2006.
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“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.”
-- Antonio de Oliveira SalazarSource : "Salazar: biographical study" by Franco Nogueira, Atlantis Publishing, (p. 285), 1977.
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“State is the nation socially organized.”
-- Antonio de Oliveira SalazarSource : "Speeches" by António de Oliveira Salazar, Coimbra Editora, Volume 4, (p. 181), 1935.
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“The day I leave the power, inside my pockets will only be dust.”
-- Antonio de Oliveira SalazarSource : "Salazar: biographical study" by Franco Nogueira, Atlantis Publishing, (p. 383), 1977.
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“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.”
-- Antonio de Oliveira SalazarSource : "Salazar: speeches, notes, reports, theses, articles and interviews, 1909-1955: Anthology" by António de Oliveira Salazar, Editorial Vanguarda, (p. 212), 1955.
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“That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.”
Source : "The Big Picture: An American Commentary". Book by A. Whitney Brown, 1991.
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Source : Song: Where the Stars and Stripes and the Eagle Fly
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“Grace is God's acceptance of us. Faith is our acceptance of God accepting us.”
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“A firm faith in the universal providence of God is the solution of all earthly troubles.”
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“I have only been an instrument in the hands of Providence.”
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