James Callaghan

(9 votes)   There is not a single injustice in Northern Ireland that is worth the loss of a single British soldier or a single Irish citizen either.

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(21 votes)   Your strike will not win. You cannot be allowed to succeed.

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(16 votes)   A lie can be halfway around the world before truth has got its boots on.

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(14 votes)   A leader has to 'appear' consistent. That doesn't mean he has to be consistent.

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(11 votes)   A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice.

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(11 votes)   Society today is so organized that every individual group has the power to disrupt it. How is their power to be channelled into constructive channels?

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(11 votes)   There are no instant solutions.

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(10 votes)   I am not proposing to seek your votes because there is a blue sky ahead today.

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(10 votes)   I am rather in favour of dealing with teenage hooliganism.

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(10 votes)   I sum up the prospects for 1967 in three short sentences. We are back on course. The ship is picking up speed. The economy is moving. Every seaman knows the command at such a moment: 'steady as she goes'.

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(10 votes)   I've never been one to say that Britain was joining a happy band of brothers.

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(10 votes)   Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions.

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(10 votes)   The rule of law should be upheld by all political parties. They should neither advise others to break the law, nor encourage others to do so even when they strongly disagree with the legislation put forward by the government of the day.

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(9 votes)   A lie can be halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on.

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(6 votes)   You can never reach the promised land. You can march towards it.

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