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He hoped he was not a Jingo, but he still felt that the British were the best Colonial administrators of any government in the world.

— Herbert Morrison

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Never again while the risk of war remained must we allow ourselves to neglect our land weapon.

Work is the call. Work at war speed. Good-night—and go to it.

What the resolution does not contemplate being done is the lining up behind the government and voting for its rearmament programme.

A vote for the Tories is a vote for war.

The fact that the House of Lords has many irrational features is not, in itself, fatal in British eyes for we have a capacity for making the irrational work, and if a thing works, we tend to like it, or at any rate to put up with it.

Government and Parliament: A Survey from the Inside (1959)

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Ill can he rule the great, that cannot reach the small.

Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene (1589)

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

James Madison

Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

Leon Trotsky The Revolution Betrayed (1936)

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

John Adams

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