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We want two things. We want relief from the pressure of excessive taxation, and at the same time we want money to meet our own domestic needs at home, which have been too long starved and neglected owing to the demands on the taxpayer for military purposes abroad.

— Henry Campbell-Bannerman

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Liberal politics meant the politics of common-sense.

The greatest of British interests is peace.

I have never uttered a pro-Boer word: I have been anti-Joe but never pro-Kruger.

I have said that in my opinion at the present time, as to the main fabric of our Army system, the truest courage and the best reforming wisdom lies in leaving well alone.

We have in all things three great enemies: (1) devotion to material prosperity, national and individual; (2) love of sport and gambling in all forms; (3) apathy.

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