World Quotes by Ernest Bevin

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

A newspaper has three things to do. One is to amuse, another is to entertain and the rest is to mislead.

— Ernest Bevin

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

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

The most conservative man in this world is the British trade unionist when you want to change him.

— Ernest Bevin

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

If you let that sort of thing go on, your bread and butter will be cut right out from under your feet.

— Ernest Bevin

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

Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.

— Ernest Bevin

Civilisation cannot survive if it rests on a propertyless proletariat.

— Ernest Bevin

My policy is to be able to take a ticket at Victoria station and go anywhere I damn well please!

— Ernest Bevin

There should be a study of a house directly elected by the people of the world to whom the nations are accountable.

— Ernest Bevin