For a quarter-century British governments had tried and failed to combine economic growth, increased social service provision and a high level of employment. The second depended ultimately on the first, but when difficulty arose, the first had always been sacrificed to the other two. The United Kingdom was, after all, a democracy whose votes, greedy and gullible, had to be placated. J.M. Roberts
You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.
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William Wilberforce
Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act which deprived a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
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Mahatma Gandhi
The new naval treaty permits the United States to spend a billion dollars on warships–a sum greater than has been accumulated by all our endowed institutions of learning in their entire history. Unintelligence could go no further! ... [In Great Britain, the situation is similar.]...
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Abraham Flexner
Ha! " cried Dr John contemptuously. "Magic! That is chiefly used for killing Frenchmen, is it not?
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Susanna Clarke
This is an odd one. You have one country in the world where a word has a deeper meaning, it can really mess with design plans....But we have a difficult situation here so I guess we'll be looking at putting different sound chips in the...
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Todd McFarlane
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Ever since 1945 the federal government has held and indeed increased its importance as the first customer of the American economy. Government spending had been the primary economic stimulant and to increase it had been the goal of hundreds of interest groups; hopes of balanced...
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