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> [If there is a class war - and there is - it is important that it should be handled with subtlety and skill. ... it is not freedom that Conservatives want; what they want is the sort of freedom that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maurice-cowling/if-there-is-a-class-war-and-there-is-it-is-important-that-it-should/)

[Maurice Cowling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maurice-cowling/)

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## More by Maurice Cowling

> [From Britain's point of view the 1939 war had been a liberal war which had been entered into in a condition of moral indignation…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maurice-cowling/from-britain-s-point-of-view-the-1939-war-had-been-a-liberal-war/)

[Maurice Cowling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maurice-cowling/)

> [I've read The Satanic Verses and I thought it a nasty, sneering, free-thinking book... I can understand why the book is offensive and it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maurice-cowling/i-ve-read-the-satanic-verses-and-i-thought-it-a-nasty-sneering-free/)

[Maurice Cowling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maurice-cowling/)

> [It seemed to me singularly ill-contrived for the British government to be going to war with Hitler when Hitler might have been about to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maurice-cowling/it-seemed-to-me-singularly-ill-contrived-for-the-british-government/)

[Maurice Cowling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maurice-cowling/)

> [If there is a class war - and there is - it is important that it should be handled with subtlety and skill. ...…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maurice-cowling/if-there-is-a-class-war-and-there-is-it-is-important-that-it-should/)

[Maurice Cowling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maurice-cowling/)

> [I'm an intellectual Thatcherite, just as I was an intellectual Powellite, and I think it important that the Conservative party should be in good…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maurice-cowling/i-m-an-intellectual-thatcherite-just-as-i-was-an-intellectual/)

[Maurice Cowling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maurice-cowling/)

> [Liberalism is essentially the belief that there can be a reconciliation of all difficulties and differences, and since there can't, it is a misleading…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maurice-cowling/liberalism-is-essentially-the-belief-that-there-can-be-a/)

[Maurice Cowling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maurice-cowling/)

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