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Advertising is "an evil service."

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You're not an M.P., you're a gastronomic pimp.

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

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Man must first live before he can live abundantly.

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There can be no immaculate conception of socialism.

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The language of priorities is the religion of socialism.

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He is a man walking backwards with his face to the future.

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The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

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I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

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There is only one hope for mankind — and that is democratic Socialism.

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The Labour Party should oppose the Government arms plan root and branch.

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Damn it all, you can't have the crown of thorns and the thirty pieces of silver.

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Discontent arises from a knowledge of the possible, as contrasted with the actual.

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We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.

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Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.

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There are two ways of getting into the Cabinet—you can crawl in or kick your way in.

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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
Of Harold Macmillan

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If freedom is to be saved and enlarged, poverty must be ended. There is no other solution.

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Of J.B. Priestley during the WW2:
Playing on a fuddled fiddle, somewhere in the muddled middle.

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I know that the right kind of leader for the Labour Party is a kind of desiccated calculating machine.

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If you carry this resolution you will send Britain's Foreign Secretary naked into the conference chamber.

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Explaining how he persuaded doctors to accept the National Health Service:
I stuffed their mouths with gold.

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The spectacle therefore afforded us by the United States is one of technical brilliance and social blindness.

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No society can legitimately call itself civilized if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means.

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The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the Right Honorable Gentleman for four and a half years.

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