Barbara Castle Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
Barbara Castle quotes and sayings page 2 (politician). These are the last 10 out of 20 quotes we have.
“You see, another reason for nationalization was that private ownership meant fragmentation.”
“And that had a powerful appeal, particularly to those who had been denied the choice to stay on at school, to go to university, to be something else, other than going down the pit.”
“If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s.”
“Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion.”
“That was not what men and women fought for during the war.”
“Those were the ideals that drove us to nationalization of the health service.”
“Why not pool your resources? And so we broke into the concept of the sacredness of private property.”
“It might have been offset for us if the revenue from our own oil and natural gas that was just developing had been available to the Labor Government, but the oil revenues were just coming in when Labor fell in '79.”
“It was very much a cry for democratic control at that time. Above all, breaking the accomplished power of a few people to rule the lives of everybody else.”
“What we set out to do was to ensure that this system of fair shares and the planning and controls continued after the war, and when we won, that's what we did.”
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