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"We must not expect a full-scale peaceful revolution every time a Labour Government is elected."
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"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."
"There shall be no end to the government of God."
"There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you."
"The ugliest government is the one which is spreading fear to its own people! The finest government is the one which encourages its own people to criticize the government harshly."
"The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government."
"The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security."
"All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter."
"There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion."
"He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it."
"If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government, they plainly can do nothing to protect the people against the oppressions of the government; for there are no oppressions which the government may not authorize by law."
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"A social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sect."
"The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilised society."
"I am sure Mr Heath thinks he is honest but I wish he didn't have to have his friends say it so often."
"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."
"We must not expect a full-scale peaceful revolution every time a Labour Government is elected."
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