It is placing the Executive and the Movement in an absolutely wrong position to be taking your conscience round from body to body asking to be told what you ought to do with it. — 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
