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> [Democracy is not about making speeches. It is about making committees work.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-bullock/democracy-is-not-about-making-speeches-it-is-about-making-committees/)

[Alan Bullock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-bullock/)

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## More by Alan Bullock

> [Bullock by name, and Bullock by nature.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-bullock/bullock-by-name-and-bullock-by-nature/)

[Alan Bullock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-bullock/)

> [Evil is a form of incompetence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-bullock/evil-is-a-form-of-incompetence/)

[Alan Bullock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-bullock/)

> [If the country is to survive as a democracy it will depend on voters who understand how our political institutions have evolved and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-bullock/if-the-country-is-to-survive-as-a-democracy-it-will-depend-on-voters/)

[Alan Bullock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-bullock/)

> [History, well taught, is the demythologising of the past... Take any important issue of our time - Northern Ireland, Nuclear Disarmament, Race, The Welfare…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-bullock/history-well-taught-is-the-demythologising-of-the-past-take-any/)

[Alan Bullock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-bullock/)

> [No one understood better than Stalin that the true object of propaganda is neither to convince nor even to persuade, but to produce a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-bullock/no-one-understood-better-than-stalin-that-the-true-object-of/)

[Alan Bullock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-bullock/)

> [Hitler's dictatorship rested on the constitutional foundation of a single law, the Enabling Law.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-bullock/hitler-s-dictatorship-rested-on-the-constitutional-foundation-of-a/)

[Alan Bullock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-bullock/)

> [Democracy is not about making speeches. It is about making committees work.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-bullock/democracy-is-not-about-making-speeches-it-is-about-making-committees/)

[Alan Bullock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-bullock/)

> [Spending a weekend with Hitler would have been boring in the extreme, although you would have had a greater certainty in coming back alive.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-bullock/spending-a-weekend-with-hitler-would-have-been-boring-in-the-extreme/)

[Alan Bullock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-bullock/)

> [Hitler had a plausible case to argue when he claimed that the Anschluss was only the application of the Wilsonian principle of self-determination.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-bullock/hitler-had-a-plausible-case-to-argue-when-he-claimed-that-the/)

[Alan Bullock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-bullock/)

> [The corruption of people is to behave in an inhuman way.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-bullock/the-corruption-of-people-is-to-behave-in-an-inhuman-way/)

[Alan Bullock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-bullock/)

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