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Roy Jenkins

"We must not expect a full-scale peaceful revolution every time a Labour Government is elected."

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"We must not expect a full-scale peaceful revolution every time a Labour Government is elected."

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"The great disadvantage of our present electoral system is that it freezes the pattern of politics, and holds together the incompatible because everyone assumes that if a party splits it will be electorally slaughtered."
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"A social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sect."
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"The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilised society."
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"There are always great dangers in letting the best be the enemy of the good."
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"The Labour Party is and always has been an instinctive part of my life."
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"I am sure Mr Heath thinks he is honest but I wish he didn't have to have his friends say it so often."
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"We must not expect a full-scale peaceful revolution every time a Labour Government is elected."
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