“Mr. Chamberlain is right in so far as he says that things are not well in this country. We cannot feed the hungry with statistics of national prosperity, or stop the pangs of famine by reciting to a man the prodigious number of cheques that pass through the clearing-house. We must therefore propose something better than Mr. Chamberlain.”
“Four spectres haunt the Poor — Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcise them. We are going to drive hunger from the hearth. We mean to banish the workhouse from the horizon of every workman in the land.”
“What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.”
“Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.”
“Death is the most convenient time to tax rich people.”
“A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.”
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