Hugh Gaitskell Quotes

• I can assure you that there is no question of us throwing away the tradition of the Grammar Schools.

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  Education   School   Tradition  

  943

• Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.

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  People   Half   Politics  

  4314

• In the last few years we have learned to distinguish the means of Socialism from the ends.

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  Mean   Years   Lasts  

  4594

• 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.

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  Mean   Independent   Years  

  2750

• We really must keep under control, and pretty strict control, the area within which 'The Man in Whitehall' knows best.

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  Men   He Man   Strict  

  636

• You still hear some people speaking as though we could decide whether the Common market existed or not.

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  People   Common   European Union  

  1814

• We could not have parliamentary sovereignty with a European Parliament.

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  Parliament   Sovereignty   Parliamentary  

  609

• In recent years, hours of work have been reduced, holidays have been increased, the age of entry into employment has gone up, and above all, our general health and expectation of life as a people have markedly improved. It is a natural corollary of these changes that we should work longer and retire later.

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  Holiday   Years   People  

  "Hansard", House of Commons, 5th series, vol. 486, col. 849,

  733

• Surely the right course is to test the Russians, not the bombs.

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  Hugh Gaitskell

  Science   Bombs   Tests  

  785

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