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“My policy is to be able to take a ticket at Victoria station and go anywhere I damn well please!” quote by Ernest Bevin — Download Open image

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

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Foreign policy isn't something that is great and big, it's common sense and humanity as it applies to my affairs and yours.

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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.

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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 whether or…

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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 kind heart,…

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

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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 very quickly,…

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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.

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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 been prevented…

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Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.

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Civilisation cannot survive if it rests on a propertyless proletariat.

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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.

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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 body asking…

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