If we yield now to the TUC we shall never be able to call our bodies or souls or intelligences our own.
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Diary entry after the TUC rejected cuts in public spending (22 August 1931), quoted in David Marquand, "MacDonald, (James) Ramsay (1866–1937)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, October 2009.