"Our long-term objective is clear: to replace the Labour Party as the progressive wing of politics in this country."

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Source : Said in November 1953. "The Liberal Dilemma". Book by Alan Watkins, p. 91, 1966.

Jo Grimond

#Country Quotes #Party Quotes #Wings Quotes

“It would have been easier to fight alone with inadequate forces than to have to accept...responsibility for our ally's lack of fighting qualities and dubious loyalty.”
“We have to make good use of the time we have. That simple. We have to wake up every day, knowing that it's not just an ordinary day. We have to take the moment, seize each day.”
“Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.”
“The primitive history of the species is all the more fully retained in its germ-history in proportion as the series of embryonic forms traversed is longer; and it is more accurately retained the less the mode of life of the recent forms differs from that of the earlier, and the less the peculiarities of the several embryonic states must be regarded as transferred from a later to an earlier period of life, or as acquired independently.”
“A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.”
“Democracies are expense-averse and they think in terms of short-term, political interests rather than a long-term interest in stability.”
“All service ranks the same with God,- With God, whose puppets, best and worst, Are we: there is no last nor first.”
“Kids know me from their Grease DVD, so they instantly respond. You can hear a pin drop when I do my old songs.”

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