Peter Thorneycroft, Baron Thorneycroft quotes

Peter Thorneycroft, Baron Thorneycroft quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“No government dependent on a democratic vote could possibly agree in advance to the sacrifices which any adequate plan for European Union must involve. The people must be led slowly and unconsciously into the abandonment of their traditional economic defences, not asked.”
-- Peter Thorneycroft, Baron Thorneycroft

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“Some men go through life absolutely miserable because, despite the most enormous achievement, they just didn't do one thing-like the architect who didn't build St Paul's. I didn't quite build St Paul's, but I stood on more mountaintops than possibly I deserved.”
-- Peter Thorneycroft, Baron Thorneycroft

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“The choice in politics isn't usually between black and white. It's between two horrible shades of gray.”
-- Peter Thorneycroft, Baron Thorneycroft

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