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  • Our long-term objective is clear: to replace the Labour Party as the progressive wing of politics in this country.

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    Said in November 1953. "The Liberal Dilemma". Book by Alan Watkins, p. 91, 1966.

  • I have long believed that women should play a much bigger part in our affairs.

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    Play   Long   Affair  
    Jo Grimond (1979). “Memoirs”, David & Charles Publishers

  • After listening to the debate on unemployment I can see a danger that Liberals lose to the Tories their claim to have new and sensible ideas and are left saying "Me too" to a Socialist conventional wisdom which is failing. The salient need of this country to produce more and much more efficiently hardly figured on the agenda.

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    Country   Ideas   Listening  
    The Sunday Times, September 19, 1976.

  • We shall experience the final defeat of liberalism not when immigration but when emigration is forbidden

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    Immigration   Finals   Emigration  

  • The state owned monopolies are among the greatest millstones round the neck of the economy. Liberals must stress at all times the virtues of the market, not only for efficiency but to enable the widest possible choice. Much of what Mrs Thatcher and Sir Keith Joseph say and do is in the mainstream of liberal philosophy.

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    Stress   Philosophy   Choices  
    "The Future of Liberalism: The Inaugural Eighty Club Lecture". Book by Jo Grimond, 1980.

  • In bygone days, commanders were taught that when in doubt, they should march their troops towards the sound of gunfire. I intend to march my troops towards the sound of gunfire.

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    Political   Doubt   One Day  
    Speech at Liberal Party Annual Assembly, 14 Sept. 1963, in Guardian 16 Sept. 1963

  • The trouble with the Labour Party is that they don't really believe in Socialism, but they cannot wholeheartedly approve of private enterprise either.

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    Party   Believe   Political  
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Jo Grimond

  • Born: July 29, 1913
  • Died: October 24, 1993
  • Occupation: Scottish Politician
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