If you let that sort of thing go on, your bread and butter will be cut right out from under your feet. — Ernest Bevin Copy Share Image
Foreign policy isn't something that is great and big, it's common sense and humanity as it applies to my affairs and yours. — Ernest Bevin Copy Share Image
A newspaper has three things to do. One is to amuse, another is to entertain and the rest is to mislead. — Ernest Bevin Copy Share Image
If the workers see themselves faced with defeat through starvation, they will prefer to go down fighting rather than fainting — and whether or… — Ernest Bevin Copy Share Image
Ernest Bevin had many of the strongest characteristics of the English race. His manliness, his common sense, his rough simplicity, sturdiness and kind heart,… — Ernest Bevin Copy Share Image
The most conservative man in this world is the British trade unionist when you want to change him. — Ernest Bevin Copy Share Image
There has been great excitement at the prospect that this atomic bomb or atomic energy is likely to produce great industrial energy very quickly,… — Ernest Bevin Copy Share Image
If you let that sort of thing go on, your bread and butter will be cut right out from under your feet. — Ernest Bevin Copy Share Image
There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, could not have been prevented… — Ernest Bevin Copy Share Image
Civilisation cannot survive if it rests on a propertyless proletariat. — Ernest Bevin Copy Share Image
My policy is to be able to take a ticket at Victoria station and go anywhere I damn well please! — Ernest Bevin Copy Share Image
There should be a study of a house directly elected by the people of the world to whom the nations are accountable. — Ernest Bevin Copy Share Image
It is placing the Executive and the Movement in an absolutely wrong position to be taking your conscience round from body to body asking… — Ernest Bevin Copy Share Image
It was like a life-line to a sinking man. It seemed to bring hope where there was none. The generosity of it was beyond… — Ernest Bevin Copy Share Image
What astounds me about the history of the British Navy is how cheaply we have policed the world for 300 years. — Ernest Bevin Copy Share Image
