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I hope you have read the election programme of the Labour Party...this is not socialism. It is Bolshevism run mad.

— Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden

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I would like to see the word 'nationalization' banned from the socialist vocabulary.

"Truth," it has been said, "is the first casualty of war."

It is no part of my job as Chancellor of the Exchequer to put before the House of Commons proposals for the expenditure of public money. The function of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, as I understand it, is to resist all demands for expenditure made by his colleagues and, when he can no longer resist, to limit the concession to the barest point of acceptance.

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Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children.

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In my opinion, nothing has contributed so much to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is a socialist country and that every act of its rulers must be excused, if not imitated.

George Orwell

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