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

— Herbert Morrison

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

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.

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.

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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