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Herbert Morrison Quotes

1888–1965

Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth, CH PC (3 January 1888 – 6 March 1965) was a British Labour Party politician and Cabinet minister. He led the Labour Party to control the London County Council from 1934.

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Never again while the risk of war remained must we allow ourselves to neglect our land weapon.

Work is the call. Work at war speed. Good-night—and go to it.

What the resolution does not contemplate being done is the lining up behind the government and voting for its rearmament programme.

A vote for the Tories is a vote for war.

He hoped he was not a Jingo, but he still felt that the British were the best Colonial administrators of any government in the world.

The fact that the House of Lords has many irrational features is not, in itself, fatal in British eyes for we have a capacity for making the irrational work, and if a thing works, we tend to like it, or at any rate to put up with it.

Government and Parliament: A Survey from the Inside (1959)

The bridge was not of such great importance or social significance, but it was symbolical that Labour was capable of decision, that the machinery of democratic public administration would work if the men and women in charge were determined that it should work.

The good Socialist works with religious zeal for the redemption of mankind from the evils of poverty and ignorance. ... He is conscious of the beauty of the ideal ... he works on ... for the deliverance of the human spirit from the enslavement of material things.

We are going to build the Tories out of London.

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Socialism is what a Labour government does.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Herbert Morrison (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.