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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.

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To be honest one must be inconsistent.

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They did not think politics was a great constructive process, they thought it was a kind of dog-fight. They wanted fun, they wanted spice, they wanted...more

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New and stirring things are belittled because if they are not belittled the humiliating question arises 'Why then are you not taking part in them?

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Oh, Lord! don't I know it's difficult! ... Don't I know that perhaps it's impossible! But it's the only way to do it. Therefore, I say, let's try to g...more

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Modern war, modern international hostility is, I believe, possible only through the stupid illiteracy of the mass of men and the conceit and intellect...more

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In times of long established peace, when the tradition of generations has established the illusion of the profoundest human security, men's minds are ...more

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Look at the way people have swung through Communism, Toryism, Liberalism -- in vast blocks. In my father's boyhood you were either a Liberal or a Cons...more

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But nowadays -- Our weakness for the last few years has been the ineffectiveness of the Opposition. This Labour Party has never had the quality of a f...more

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It doesn't take ten years of study, you don't need to go to the University, to find out that this is a damned good world gone wrong. Gone wrong, becau...more

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The whole world," he said, "is going Radical again. Fundamentally. In religion. In politics. In law. The Common Man has been trying to get his Radical...more

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It was his first definite encounter with the wary-eyed, platitudinous, evasive Labour leaders, and he realised at once the formidable barrier ofinert ...more

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He came away with an exasperated sense of failure. He denounced parliamentary government root and branch that night. Parliament was doomed. The fact t...more

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We have nothing to destroy," said Rud. "All these things are done for already. They are falling in all over the world. They are dead. No need for dest...more

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Public men in America are too public. Too accessible. This sitting on the stoop and being 'just folk' was all very well for local politics and the sim...more