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

- Ernest Bevin

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

- Ernest Bevin

There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, could not have been prevented ... The common man, I …

- Ernest Bevin

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

- Ernest Bevin

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

- Ernest Bevin

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

- Ernest Bevin

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

- Ernest Bevin

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

- Ernest Bevin

Civilisation cannot survive if it rests on a propertyless proletariat.

- Ernest Bevin