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The Labour Party is and always has been an instinctive part of my life
Roy Jenkins / British Politician
Has Beens
Labour Party
Party
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The Labour Party is and always has been an instinctive part of my life.
Roy Jenkins / British Politician
Labour
Labour Party
Life My Life Always
Instinctive
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There are always great dangers in letting the best be the enemy of the good.
Roy Jenkins / British Politician
Government
Enemy
Letting Go
Best Good Great
Dangers
Letting
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The fact is that Harold Wilson is a person no one can like, a person without friends.
Roy Jenkins / British Politician
Facts
Persons
Wilson
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We must not expect a full-scale peaceful revolution every time a Labour Government is elected
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Peace
Government
Revolution
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We must not expect a full-scale peaceful revolution every time a Labour Government is elected.
Roy Jenkins / British Politician
Labour
Peaceful
Revolution
Elected
Every Time
Labour Government
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I am sure Mr Heath thinks he is honest but I wish he didn't have to have his friends say it so often.
Roy Jenkins / British Politician
I Am Wish I Wish
Mr
Heath
Thinks
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The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilised society
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Dirty
Nasty
Phrases
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The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilised society.
Roy Jenkins / British Politician
Civilised
Dirty
Allowed
Permissive
Phrase
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A substantial extension of public ownership is an essential pre-requisite of greater equality of earned income
Roy Jenkins / British Politician
Essentials
Income
Ownership
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There is a lot of talk about a centre party - and that I might lead it. I find this idea profoundly unattractive
Roy Jenkins / British Politician
Ideas
Party
Unattractive
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Many of the early nationalisation measures were right. They have remained part of the social fabric. I favour measures of that type.
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Fabric
Favour
Social
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A social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sect
Roy Jenkins / British Politician
Class
Party
Roots
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A social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sect.
Roy Jenkins / British Politician
Democratic
Democratic Party
Movement
Roots
Fade
Quickly
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Inheritance Tax; - it is, broadly speaking; a voluntary levy paid by those who distrust their heirs more than they dislike the Inland Revenue
Roy Jenkins / British Politician
Distrust
Heirs
Inheritance
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Each successive Labour Government has been the most rapacious, doctrinaire and unpatriotic conspiracy to be seen this side of the Iron Curtain.
Roy Jenkins / British Politician
Government
Iron
Sides
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The great disadvantage of our present electoral system is that it freezes the pattern of politics, and holds together the incompatible because everyone assumes that if a party splits it will be electorally slaughtered
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Party
Splits
Together
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The great disadvantage of our present electoral system is that it freezes the pattern of politics, and holds together the incompatible because everyone assumes that if a party splits it will be electorally slaughtered.
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Splits
Assumes
Disadvantage
Electoral
Holds
Incompatible
Pattern
Slaughtered
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I do not think you can push public expenditure significantly above 60 per cent and maintain the values of a plural society with adequate freedom of choice. We are here close to one of the frontiers of social democracy.
Roy Jenkins / British Politician
Choices
Democracy
Thinking
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The most moving speech I have ever heard was Hugh Gaitskell saying he would 'fight, fight and fight again to save the party we love. That was the right message in 1960, and I believe it is still the right message today.
Roy Jenkins / British Politician
Believe
Moving
Party
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I therefore believe that the politics of the left and centre of this country are frozen in an out-of-date mould which is bad for the political and economic health of Britain and increasingly inhibiting for those who live within the mould. Can it be broken?
Roy Jenkins / British Politician
Believe
Broken
Country
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