Their Heirs Quotes by Roy Jenkins

More Quotes by Roy Jenkins

Roy Jenkins has 18 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• There are always great dangers in letting the best be the enemy of the good.
• A substantial extension of public ownership is an essential pre-requisite of greater equality of earned income
• The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilised society
• A social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sect
• We must not expect a full-scale peaceful revolution every time a Labour Government is elected
• The Labour Party is and always has been an instinctive part of my life
• There is a lot of talk about a centre party - and that I might lead it. I find this idea profoundly…
• I therefore believe that the politics of the left and centre of this country are frozen in an out-of-date mould which is…
• The great disadvantage of our present electoral system is that it freezes the pattern of politics, and holds together the incompatible because…
• I do not think you can push public expenditure significantly above 60 per cent and maintain the values of a plural society…
• Many of the early nationalisation measures were right. They have remained part of the social fabric. I favour measures of that type.
• Inheritance Tax; - it is, broadly speaking; a voluntary levy paid by those who distrust their heirs more than they dislike the…

See all 18 quotes by Roy Jenkins »