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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.

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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.

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