Roy Hattersley Quotes
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I've been in the Labour Party 50 years and it's 40-odd since I was elected to Parliament
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Indeed in my blue and white Sheffield Wednesday heart I applauded and supported his loyalty.
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Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance.
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Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.
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Labour has converted to Europe because Europe has converted to socialism.
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A crucial contribution to the ideological argument ...it provides a vital part of the intellectual manifesto on which the battle for a better society can be fought
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In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.
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The Labour Party can go into the next election united behind the most radical manifesto on which we have ever campaigned.
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Truth is suppressed, not to protect the country from enemy agents but to protect the Government of the day against the people.
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I've never known a time when the in-fighting in the Labour Party was so bitter.
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We atheists have to accept that most believers are better human beings.
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People who watch morning television are elderly, infirm or emotionally immature.
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In my opinion, any man who can afford to buy a newspaper should not be allowed to own one.
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The proposition that Muslims are welcome in Britain if, and only if, they stop behaving like Muslims is a doctrine which is incompatible with the principles that guide a free society.
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One of the problems of our society is that we spend too much time thinking about punishment and not enough about prevention.
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