Quotes by Barbara Castle

In politics, guts is all.

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What we set out to do was to ensure that this system of fair shares...

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Those were the ideals that drove us to nationalization of the health service.

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There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law...

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Then, with lots of people doing that without ever looking over their shoulders to see...

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That was not what men and women fought for during the war.

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It was very much a cry for democratic control at that time. Above all, breaking...

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It might have been offset for us if the revenue from our own oil and...

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It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the...

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If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the...

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I remember people who'd had a lot of hardship during the war. They'd thought we'd...

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He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining...

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