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What the Liberals have done to the Labour Party's programme is to come along like a gipsy, steal our child, get it in gaudy attire, and then produce it on platforms to perform at the General Election.

— Ramsay MacDonald

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Felt the virtues of the Victorian times so condemned by Mr Strachey. The simple honesties can always be made a butt by the impish unrealiabilites.

In youth one believes in democracy, later on, one has to accept it.

If we yield now to the TUC we shall never be able to call our bodies or souls or intelligences our own.

Mr. Lloyd George will not resign on anything anti-German. He is anti-German, and the trust which the reasonable Peace people place in him is altogether misplaced.

State Charity is not socialism but may become the greatest menace the Socialist Movement [has been] threatened with.

Letter (1909)

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