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I believe it is time for the Government urgently to consider deterring the indiscriminate aerial bombardment of civilians in Syria through the willingness to consider the prudent and limited use of force.

— Jo Cox Don’t leave Syria to become a graveyard — this generation’s responsibility to the world (2015)

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It bodes well for the future that young people are thinking so intently about political issues.

They are a lifeline for job hunters without their own computer, slimmers, walkers, discussers, knitters and natterers.

The priority has been offering a service and making a difference.

I didn’t really speak right or knew the right people.

We can and should do much more to help.

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

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

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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.

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