Em dia de comemoração revolucionária, duas reflexões breves:
1. Gosto muito de Espanha, mas não me sinto espanhol.
2. Nenhum Governo pode governar contra o povo.
Ou, nas imortais palavras de Macaulay:
“The violence of revolutions is generally proportioned to the degree of the maladministration which has produced them. It is therefore not strange that the government of Scotland, having been during many years greatly more corrupt than the government of England, should have fallen with a far heavier ruin. The movement against the last king of the house of Stuart was in England conservative, in Scotland destructive. The English complained not of the law, but of the violation of the law.” (The History of England from the Accession of James II. Thomas Babington Macaulay, Chapter XIII, 1848).
Luis Miguel Novais
