Rab Butler Quotes
1902–1982 United Kingdom
Richard Austen Butler, Baron Butler of Saffron Walden, KG, CH, DL, PC (9 December 1902 – 8 March 1982), also known as R. A.
Also known as: R. A. Butler
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Conservatives have always been ready to use the power of the State.
Truly Conservative policies [are] freeing markets, freeing the economy, giving the economy buoyancy, moving to liberty and the desirable goal of freeing payments and trade.
Conservatives were planning before the word entered the vocabulary of political jargon.
We don't have to take this Thatcher business seriously, do we?
[The Anglo-Polish alliance] would have a bad psychological effect on Hitler and would wreck any negotiations.
The term "planning" is a new word for coherent and positive policy. The conception of strong Government policy in economic matters is, I believe, the very centre of the Conservative tradition. We have never been a party of laissez-faire.
I have said on many occasions, in Parliament and elsewhere, that I am not convinced that this [the restoration of corporal punishment for young offenders] would have the effect for which its advocates hope.
I had derived from Bolingbroke an assurance that the majesty of the State might be used in the interests of the many, from Burke a belief in seeking patterns of improvement by balancing diverse interests, and from Disraeli an insistence that the two nations must become one. If my brand of Conservatism was unorthodox, I was committing heresy in remarkably good company.
The Art of the Possible (1971)