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One of the central purposes of democratic socialism was to extend throughout the community the opportunity of freedom of choice which used to be the prerogative of the few.

— Roy Jenkins

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It is the duty of the state to lean firmly but unvindictively in favour of greater equality.

In these circumstances it is essential we should be able to speak with sanity and authority in world monetary affairs. You cannot do this from a position of perpetual deficit.

I am in favour of courage—who is ever not in the abstract?—but not of treating it as a substitute for wisdom, as I fear we are currently in danger of doing.

I find it increasingly difficult to take Mr Benn seriously as an economics minister.

Many of the early nationalisation measures were right. They have remained part of the social fabric. I favour measures of that type.

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