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From the day Hitler came to power, I have felt that the democratic countries would have to face war... I cannot see any way of stopping Hitler and the other dictators except by force.

— Ernest Bevin

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There should be a study of a house directly elected by the people of the world to whom the nations are accountable.

The most conservative man in the world is the British Trade Unionist when you want to change him.

So long as I have any power at all I will never be a party to treating the Army in the future as it has been treated in the past. They broke up in peace-time the very foundations of the Army structure, and expected to build it up during war-time with the enemy at the gates.

My policy is to be able to take a ticket at Victoria station and go anywhere I damn well please!

If the workers see themselves faced with defeat through starvation, they will prefer to go down fighting rather than fainting — and whether or not we leaders agree.

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