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Estoril Political Forum
"Rebuilding Democratic Consensus— At Home and Abroad & Celebrating the 650th Anniversary of the Anglo-Portuguese Alliance"
26-28 June 2023
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Alexis de Tocqueville Annual Lecture
Christopher Walker, Vice President, Studies and Analysis, National Endowment for Democracy (Washington DC), 5 MAR - [Est.1998] -
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John Henry Cardinal Newman, 1854
"It is well to be a gentleman, it is well to have a cultivated intellect, a delicate taste, a candid, equitable dispassionate mind, a noble and courteous bearing in the conduct of life – these are the connatural qualities of a large knowledge, they are the objects of a University.
[...] A University is a place where inquiry is pushed forward, and discoveries verified and perfected, and rashness rendered innocuous, and error exposed, by the collision of mind with mind, and knowledge with knowledge."
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Edmund Burke, 1791
"To be bred in a place of estimation; to see nothing low and sordid from one's infancy; to be taught to respect one's self; to be habituated to the censorial inspection of the public eye; (...) to have leisure to read, to reflect, to converse; (...) to be taught to despise danger in the pursuit of honour and duty; (...) to possess the virtues of diligence, order, constancy, and regularity, and to have cultivated an habitual regard to commutative justice: these are the circumstances of men that form what I should call a natural [as opposed to feudal] aristocracy."