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Barbara Castle

"Another example of that was that even during the economic problems of the 1945 government, we managed to carry out other aspects of our policy and other ideals. Through the establishment of national parks, for instance."

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"Another example of that was that even during the economic problems of the 1945 government, we managed to carry out other aspects of our policy and other ideals. Through the establishment of national parks, for instance."

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Donna Grant

"Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated."

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Donna Grant

"We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it."

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Donna Grant

"If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep."

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Donna Grant

"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."

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Donna Grant

"I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes."

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Donna Grant

"There shall be no end to the government of God."

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Donna Grant

"There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you."

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Donna Grant

"Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves."

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Donna Grant

"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."

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"The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves."

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Barbara Castle
"Those were the ideals that drove us to nationalization of the health service."

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Barbara Castle
"Another example of that was that even during the economic problems of the 1945 government, we managed to carry out other aspects of our policy and other ideals. Through the establishment of national parks, for instance."

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Barbara Castle
"I remember a big meeting with the hosiery trade in Harold's ministerial room."

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Barbara Castle
"What we set out to do was to ensure that this system of fair shares and the planning and controls continued after the war, and when we won, that's what we did."

War

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Barbara Castle
"He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit."

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Barbara Castle
"It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment."

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Barbara Castle
"Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion."

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Barbara Castle
"And that will increasingly dawn on people. The demand for controlling the commanding heights will grow."

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Barbara Castle
"It might have been offset for us if the revenue from our own oil and natural gas that was just developing had been available to the Labor Government, but the oil revenues were just coming in when Labor fell in '79."

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Barbara Castle
"I remember people who'd had a lot of hardship during the war. They'd thought we'd won."

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