Ramsay MacDonald Quote

If we yield now to the TUC we shall never be able to call our bodies or souls or intelligences our own.


Diary entry (22 Augusut 1931) after the TUC rejected cuts in public spending, quoted in David Marquand, 'MacDonald, (James) Ramsay (1866–1937)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2009.


If we yield now to the TUC we shall never be able to call our bodies or souls or intelligences our own.

If we yield now to the TUC we shall never be able to call our bodies or souls or intelligences our own.

If we yield now to the TUC we shall never be able to call our bodies or souls or intelligences our own.

If we yield now to the TUC we shall never be able to call our bodies or souls or intelligences our own.