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If it's the last thing I do, I'm going to destroy every fucking grammar school in England. And Wales. And Northern Ireland.

— Anthony Crosland

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Crosland is so quoted by his wife Susan Crosland in her biography, Tony Crosland (1982), p. 148. Some of his political allies dispute that he believed the sentiments conveyed by the quote and therefore cast doubt on whether he actually said it.

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As a democratic Socialist profoundly committed to the rule of law, I could not condone, let alone encourage, defiance of the law.

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Subjectively, social relations are more natural and egalitarian, and less marked by deference, submissiveness or snobbery, as one quickly discovers from the cab-driver, the barman, the air-hostess and the drug-store assistant.

I am...wholeheartedly a Galbraith man.

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