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Ernest Bevin

(1881–1951) Politician United Kingdom

17 quotes in 123 categories

Ernest Bevin was a politician from the United Kingdom, best known for The war and the workers.

Quick Facts About Ernest Bevin

Born: March 9, 1881
Died: April 14, 1951
Nationality: United Kingdom
Profession: Politician
Notable works: The war and the workers

About Ernest Bevin

Ernest Bevin was a British statesman, trade union leader and Labour Party politician. He co-founded and served as General Secretary of the powerful Transport and General Workers' Union from 1922 to 1940 and served as Minister of Labour and National Service in the wartime coalition government. He succeeded in maximising the British labour supply for both the armed services and domestic industrial production with a minimum of strikes and disruption.

Biography source: Wikipedia

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.

Affair

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

Historical

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If the workers see themselves faced with defeat through starvation, they will prefer to go down fighting rather than fainting — and…

Agree

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Ernest Bevin had many of the strongest characteristics of the English race. His manliness, his common sense, his rough simplicity, sturdiness and…

Admiration

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

British

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There has been great excitement at the prospect that this atomic bomb or atomic energy is likely to produce great industrial energy…

Atomic bomb

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

Bread

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There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, could not have…

Common

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Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.

People

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Civilisation cannot survive if it rests on a propertyless proletariat.

Civilisation

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

Able

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

Education

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It is placing the Executive and the Movement in an absolutely wrong position to be taking your conscience round from body to…

Asking

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It was like a life-line to a sinking man. It seemed to bring hope where there was none. The generosity of it…

Belief

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What astounds me about the history of the British Navy is how cheaply we have policed the world for 300 years.

British

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If you open that Pandora's Box you never know what Trojan 'orses will jump out.

Boxes

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The first thing to decide before you walk into any negotiation is what to do if the other fellow says 'no'.

Business

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