210 Quotes filtered by policy
It is a general popular error to imagine the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
Edmund Burke 1769
Category: Demonstrations, Welfare
The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.
Arthur Balfour 07/05/1926
Category: General Strike 1926, Class, Strikes
I wanted to avoid violence. Non-violence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.
Mahatma Gandhi 10/03/1922
Statement at his trial for sedition after organising a campaign of mass civil disobedience against British rule.
Category: Peace
We will pave the way for a transformation and roll back the years of Thatcherism...We will turn economic ruin into economic recovery, and above all pave the way for a General Election to elect a Labour Government.
Arthur Scargill 14/05/1984
Category: Loony Left, Trade Unions
We in America are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of the land.
Herbert Hoover 03/11/1928
An unfortunate remark, only 5 days after the Wall Street Crash of 1929.
Category: Poverty
Peace must now be saved, and with it the world.
Sir Henry Channon 28/09/1938
Supporting Chamberlain's appeasement policy
Category: World War II, Peace
I may be a Tory - I may be an illiberal -but the fact is undeniable, that when I first entered upon the duties of the Home Department, there were laws in existence which imposed upon the subjects of this realm unuasual and extraordinary restrictions.
Robert Peel 01/05/1827
Category: Rule of Law
I am neither a Whig nor Tory. My politics are described in one word and that word is England.
Benjamin Disraeli
Category: English Identity, What is a Political Party?
I have to keep law and order and it means that I have to kill my enemies before they kill me.
Idi Amin 1977
Category: Murder, Law & Order
It does mean, if this is the idea, the end of Britain as an independent European state...it means the end of a thousand years of history.
Hugh Gaitskell 03/10/1962
Category: Europe & Britain, Eurosceptic
Lord Salisbury and myself have brought you peace - but a peace i hope with honour.
Benjamin Disraeli 07/1878
Returning from the Congress of Berlin.
Category: Peace
No more coals to Newcastle, no more Hoares to Paris.
King George V 1935
Upon Sir Samuel Hoare's resignation over the Hoare/Laval Pact.
Category: Diplomacy, Resignations
It being thus manifest that the power of kings and magistrates is nothing else but what is only derivative, transferred, and committed to them in trust from the people to the common good of them all.
John Milton 1649
Category: Rule of Law
I authorise and give up my right of governing myself, to this man, or to this assembly of men, on this condition, that thou give up thy right to him, and authorise all his actions in like manner.
Thomas Hobbes 1651
Category: Rule of Law
How could a state be governed if every individual remained free to obey or not to obey the law according to his private opinion?
Thomas Hobbes 1651
Category: Rule of Law
In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative; the executive in respect to things dependent on the law of nations; and the executive in regard to matters that depend on the civil law.
Baron de Montesquieu 1748
Category: What is Government, Rule of Law
If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.
John Stuart Mill 1859
Category: Free Speech
If we are to keep our flock at the highest pitch of excellence, there should be as many unions of the best of both sexes, and as few of the inferior as possible, and that only the offspring of the better unions should be kept.
Plato
Category: Genetics & Cloning
My only great qualification for being put in charge of the Navy is that I am very much at sea.
Ed Carson 12/1916
Category: Defence
