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"Today 23 years ago dear Grandmama died. I wonder what she would have thought of a Labour Government."
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"We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels."

"Any union that can't accept workers choosing their own representatives through universal franchise is finished."

"It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong."

"The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative."

"The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity."

"The idea of being in the State Department was exciting. On the other hand, I always had in the back of my mind going into politics. If I stayed in Washington, I might end up a government hack."

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"I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything."
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"My father was frightened of his mother; I was frightened of my father, and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me."

"I venture to allude to the impression which seemed generally to prevail among their brethren across the seas, that the Old Country must wake up if she intends to maintain her old position of pre-eminence in her colonial trade against foreign competitors."

"I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war."

"Is it possible that my people live in such awful conditions? I tell you, Mr Wheatley, that if I had to live in conditions like that I would be a revolutionary myself."

"Today 23 years ago dear Grandmama died. I wonder what she would have thought of a Labour Government."
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