From Sardinha's "On Behalf of the Commoner"

"So that it won’t be so is why we go back to the highest undertaking of our duty as Portuguese, which is nothing but the promotion between us of a restoration of intelligence. From one side and the other of the trench where Portugal cuts itself from top to bottom, swarm, in an awkward unconsciousness, the same puppets, the same fakes, whose geneology Eça de Queiróz has outlined in his work full of the utmost demolishing intent. Portugal dies, because, like a Berber tribe, it has let the roots that chain it to the eternal soul of history go dry. Thus, it is up to us - a minority, if we are to be judged - to rebuild, before anything else, the moral physionomy of nationality, by drinking in the heritage of past generations the sacred stimulae that will open before us, one after the other, the mysterious doors of the future." 

- António Sardinha in "A Prol do Comum (On Behalf of the Commoner)", 1934

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The Fatherland: In Sardinha's "On Behalf of the Commoner"

"Superior to the individuals of a sad passing hour, the Fatherland is not, in any way the pretext of our transitory passions, neither do we have the power to transform it after our whims and according to our ideologies. The stranger is not, thus, solely he which was born from another community to another language and others customs. Also a stranger is he who, insurrectioning against the rule which socially conformed him, realises in himself the tremendous word of Comte, by condemning the Revolution as being a "rebellion of the self against the species". Now, when that stranger, which is the stranger of the interior, denacionalised by cosmopolitan ideals, masonised by lowly interests of the sect, takes over the government of a nation to imprint in it a goal which is adverse to its fundamental sentiments, is there not legitimately, even from a minority, the right to revolt?" 

- António Sardinha in "A Prol do Comum (On Behalf of the Commoner)", 1934

 

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Remark from Salazar on Dubious Concepts

"The attentive observer will notice that what is called political life in the world of today is, to a great extent, only agitation and that that agitation operates around primary feelings and imprecise concepts. Certain number of words or punchlines fly from continent to continent and take with them, in the simplicity and apparent clarity of the formulas, worlds of doubtful, if not entirely wrong, concepts. For example, the words freedom, democracy, dictatorship, rights of the people, before historians could track them or philosophers define them, already had they awoken emotional torrents, unleashed revolutions, altered the march of events." 

- António de Oliveira Salazar em "Oliveira Salazar - Discursos e Notas Políticas - 1928 a 1966 (Oliveira Salazar - Speeches and Political Notes - 1928 to 1966)", 2016

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