Edward Heath famous quotes

03-24-2025

Unemployment is of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed.
-- Edward Heath

#Unemployment #Unemployed #Importance
I think Churchill would be appalled at the Thatcher government.
-- Edward Heath

#Thinking #Government #Would Be
If politicians lived on praise and thanks they'd be forced into some other line of business.
-- Edward Heath

#Lines #Politics #Thanks
There is no question of any erosion of essential national sovereignty.
-- Edward Heath

#Erosion #Europe #Essentials
The unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism.
-- Edward Heath

#Faces #Capitalism
This was a secret meeting on a secret tour which nobody is supposed to know about. It means that there are men, and perhaps women, in this country walking around with eggs in their pockets, just on the off-chance of seeing the Prime Minister.
-- Edward Heath

#Country #Mean #Men
We shall have a harder Christmas than we have known since the war.
-- Edward Heath

#War #Harder
In excluding me from the shadow cabinet, Margaret Thatcher has chosen what I believe to be the only wholly honest solution and one which I accept and welcome.
-- Edward Heath

#Believe #Shadow #Cabinets
We have had eight years of consistent and persistent attacks on those four years in government - and on me, personally, but that does not matter - by people who were collectively responsible for those four years.
-- Edward Heath

#Eight #Government #Years
I don't think that modesty is the outstanding characteristic of contemporary politics, do you?
-- Edward Heath

#Thinking #Modesty #Characteristics
Whatever the lady does is wrong. I do not know of a single right decision taken by her.
-- Edward Heath

#Taken #Decision #Doe
We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick... the trade union for the nation as a whole.
-- Edward Heath

#Children #Sick #Unions
I said it three times actually.
-- Edward Heath

#America #Three #World
Protectionism is the institutionalization of economic failure.
-- Edward Heath

#Economics #Economic #Protectionism
I have no interest in sailing around the world. Not that there is any lack of requests for me to do so.
-- Edward Heath

#Sailing #World #Interest
I have always had a hidden wish, a frustrated desire, to run a hotel
-- Edward Heath

#Running #Frustrated #Wish
We will have to embark on a change so radical, a revolution so quiet and yet so total, that it will go far beyond the programme for a parliament
-- Edward Heath

#Revolution #Quiet #Parliament
The historic role of the Conservative Party is to use the leverage of its political and diplomatic skills to create a fresh balance between the different elements within the state at those times when, for one reason or another, their imbalance threatens to disrupt the orderly development of society
-- Edward Heath

#Party #Skills #Political
You mustn't expect prime ministers to enjoy themselves. If they do, they mustn't show it - the population would be horrified
-- Edward Heath

#Population #Would Be #Prime
Do you know what Margaret Thatcher did in her first Budget? Introduced VAT on yachts! It somewhat ruined my retirement
-- Edward Heath

#Retirement #Vat #Firsts
A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing.
-- Edward Heath

#Men #Thinking #Diplomats
Abhorrence of apartheid is a moral attitude, not a policy.
-- Edward Heath

#Attitude #Moral #Apartheid
There's a lot of people I've encouraged and helped to get into the House of Commons. Looking at them now, I'm not so sure it was a wise thing to do.
-- Edward Heath

#Wise #People #House

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