210 Quotes filtered by policy
I don't know what effect these men will have on the enemy, but by God, they frighten me.
Duke of Wellington
Quite the most Christian thing that has happened in my lifetime is the Welfare State.
Donald Soper
Category: Welfare
I certainly did not say I would refuse to employ anybody becaue he had expressed himself in a hostile manner towards nationalisation. What I said was that I would not appoint somebody to a board if he had expressed himself as being against the provisions of the Bill and had declared that nationalisation was bound to prove a failure.
Emanuel Shinwell 23/06/1947
Category: Nationalisation
Long after the words that we utter in the hurry of the moment are buried in oblivion by us they are chrished and brought up against us by the nations we offend.
Lord Rosebery
Category: Diplomacy
Is it not a fact that the weapon in the armoury of the iRA is capital punishment?
Reverend Ian Paisley 17/12/1990
Category: Capital Punishment, IRA Terrorism, Northern Ireland
When I am asked by Who's Who what my interests are I put DIY and gardening. Then I hope my wife won't read it.
Tony Newton 03/05/1992
Category: Leisure
We believe that unless we give opportunity to the strong and able, we shall never have the means to provide real protection for the weak and the old.
Harold Macmillan
I would die for my country, but I could never allow my country to die for me.
Neil Kinnock
Explaining his support for CND
Category: Nuclear Disarmament
Politicians come and go, but medicine goes on for ever.
Lord Horder
Category: Health Issues, Politicians (as a species)
One of the problems of our society is that we spend too much time thinking about punishment and not enough about prevention.
Roy Hattersley 17/12/1990
Category: Justice & Sentencing, Rule of Law
The internal peace of every country depends upon the knowledge that force is available to uphold law.
Edward Grey
Category: Rule of Law
There is no security for any power unless it be a security in which its neighbours have an equal share.
Edward Grey
Category: Defence
No one has yet been able to find a method of depriving a British jury of its privilege of returning a perverse verdict.
Lord Goddard 1955
Category: Justice & Sentencing
Here is my first principle in foreign policy; good government at home.
William Ewart Gladstone
Category: Foreign Policy (British)
I can assure you that there is no question of us throwing away the tradition of the Grammar Schools.
Hugh Gaitskell 1958
Category: Education
We have many times led Europe in the fight for freedom. It would be an ignoble end to our long history if we tamely accepted to perish by degrees.
Anthony Eden
Category: Europe & Britain
Unilateralism is not internationalism, It is nationalist egotism gone mad.
Hugh Dalton
Category: Diplomacy
