Occupation: Former Financial Secretary To The Treasury Birth: June 16, 1912 Death: February 8, 1998
You have to give the electorate a tune they can whistle..
A single currency means a single government, and that single government would be the government whose policies determined every aspect of economic li….
If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words..
The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils..
We must be mad, literally mad, as a nation to be permitting the annual inflow of some 50,000 dependents, who are for the most part the material of th….
Yet we slink about like whipped curs:;... our self-abasement principally takes the form of subservience to the United States:;... we are under no nec….
It is one of history's most mocking ironies that the German customs union, which set out to dominate Europe and conquer Britain in the form of Bismar….
I refer to the misunderstanding of Soviet Russia as an aggressive power, militaristically and ideologically bent upon world domination 'seeing', to q….
Lift the curtain and 'the State' reveals itself as a little group of fallible men in Whitehall, making guesses about the future, influenced by politi….
As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding. Like the Roman, I seem to see "the River Tiber foaming with much blood..
I do here in the most solemn and bitter manner curse the Prime Minister of England [sic] for having cumulated all his other betrayals of the national….
History is littered with the wars which everybody knew would never happen..
If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends..
All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human af….
I hope those who shouted "Fascist" and "Nazi" are aware that before they were born I was fighting against Fascism and Nazism..
A politician complaining about the media is like a sailor complaining about the sea..
Virtually the entire inflow was therefore Asiatic, and all but three or four thousand of that inflow originated from the Indian subcontinent... It is….
Independence, the freedom of a self-governing nation, is in my estimation the highest political good, for which any disadvantage, if need be, and any….
It depends on how you define the word "racialist." If you mean being conscious of the differences between men and nations, and from that, races, then….
In the end, the Labour party could cease to represent labour. Stranger historic ironies have happened than that..
Values exist in a transcendental realm, beyond space and time. They can neither be fought for, nor destroyed..