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The Labour leaders are men whose doctrine requires them to make the state stronger, and whose good British instinct is to make the state as weak as possible.

— Élie Halévy

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Modern socialism is a doctrine with a double aspect... It is a doctrine of emancipation...and it is a doctrine of organisation.

I can still hear Sidney Webb explaining to me that the future lay with the great administrative nations, where governing was done by the bureaucrats and order was maintained by the policemen.

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