tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4419956543327398444.post365017602363645806..comments2023-03-26T02:37:44.900-07:00Comments on Obamatório: Do coração para o cérebroOCTÁVIO DOS SANTOShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04030899519489666237noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4419956543327398444.post-72111596833384997142011-08-07T15:27:35.311-07:002011-08-07T15:27:35.311-07:00Obrigado pelo comentário... e pelo esclarecimento ...Obrigado pelo comentário... e pelo esclarecimento (?) Aliás, e precisamente por saber que, muitas vezes, a atribuição de autoria a determinadas citações pode ser problemática, é que eu iniciei o texto escrevendo «Terá sido Winston Churchill...» De qualquer forma, e se ele disse mesmo aquilo, o facto de ter sido sempre conservador apenas torna a citação um exercício de ironia - isto é, foi uma maneira de dizer que ele sempre teve «a cabeça no sítio»!OCTÁVIO DOS SANTOShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04030899519489666237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4419956543327398444.post-13348619610862731592011-07-27T06:04:00.625-07:002011-07-27T06:04:00.625-07:00A man named Peter Rutland wrote a letter to the Wa...A man named Peter Rutland wrote a letter to the Washington Post clearing up the origin of the 'Churchill quote': ?Charles Krauthammer [op-ed, May 25] quotes Winston Churchill as saying, "If you're not a liberal when you're 20, you have no heart. If you're not a conservative when you're 40, you have no head." This quotation is frequently but mistakenly attributed to Churchill. It is anyway unlikely that Churchill would subscribe to this philosophy: He was a swashbuckling soldier at 20, and a Conservative member of Parliament at 25. A couple of years later he switched to the Liberal Party (which was not liberal in the modern sense), and later went back to the Conservatives. The phrase originated with Francois Guisot (1787-1874): "Not to be a republican at twenty is proof of want of heart; to be one at thirty is proof of want of head." It was revived by French Premier Georges Clemenceau (1841-1929): "Not to be a socialist at twenty is proof of want of heart; to be one at thirty is proof of want of head."Miguel Nascimentohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02698818981242734614noreply@blogger.com