Jo Grimond quotes

“The trouble with the Labour Party is that they don't really believe in Socialism, but they cannot wholeheartedly approve of private enterprise either.”
-- Jo Grimond

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“In bygone days, commanders were taught that when in doubt, they should march their troops towards the sound of gunfire. I intend to march my troops towards the sound of gunfire.”
-- Jo Grimond

Source : Speech at Liberal Party Annual Assembly, 14 Sept. 1963, in Guardian 16 Sept. 1963

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“Our long-term objective is clear: to replace the Labour Party as the progressive wing of politics in this country.”
-- Jo Grimond

Source : Said in November 1953. "The Liberal Dilemma". Book by Alan Watkins, p. 91, 1966.

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“The state owned monopolies are among the greatest millstones round the neck of the economy...Liberals must stress at all times the virtues of the market, not only for efficiency but to enable the widest possible choice...Much of what Mrs Thatcher and Sir Keith Joseph say and do is in the mainstream of liberal philosophy.”
-- Jo Grimond

Source : "The Future of Liberalism: The Inaugural Eighty Club Lecture". Book by Jo Grimond, 1980.

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“We shall experience the final defeat of liberalism not when immigration but when emigration is forbidden”
-- Jo Grimond

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“After listening to the debate on unemployment I can see a danger that Liberals lose to the Tories their claim to have new and sensible ideas and are left saying "Me too" to a Socialist conventional wisdom which is failing...The salient need of this country to produce more and much more efficiently hardly figured on the agenda.”
-- Jo Grimond

Source : The Sunday Times, September 19, 1976.

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“I have long believed that women should play a much bigger part in our affairs.”
-- Jo Grimond

Source : Jo Grimond (1979). “Memoirs”, David & Charles Publishers

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“I don't want to analyze myself or anything, but I think, in fact I know this to be true, that I enter the world through what I write. I grew up believing, and continue to believe, that I am a screw-up, that growing up with my family and friends, I had nothing to offer in any conversation. But when I started writing, suddenly there was something that I brought to the party that was at a high-enough level.”

“I have talked with representatives from the two other parties who said they had no problem with the offer either.”

Source : "Thai opposition views new election" by Ram Ramgopal, edition.cnn.com. April 4, 2006.

“Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.”

“[I]f the policy of the Government, upon vital questions affecting, the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made, in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased, to be their own rulers, having, to that extent, practically resigned their Government, into the hands of that eminent tribunal.”

“I’d rather be a straight ‘self-proclaimed homosexual’ than a racist, ignorant, hate-filled bigot in Rise Up Australia any day. This party wants to end multiculturalism and discriminate against anyone different. What this mob intends as a grievous insult, I take as a compliment. Long live equal rights.”

“There are as many attitudes to cooking as there are people cooking, of course, but I do think that cooking guys tend - I am a guilty party here - to take, or get, undue credit for domestic virtue, when in truth cooking is the most painless and, in its ways, ostentatious of the domestic chores.”

“I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true”

“No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.”

“The current political tension is very serious. We have not yet ruled out a boycott of the election.”

“Our political problem now is "Can we, as a nation, continue together permanentlyforever--half slave, and half free?" The problem is too mighty for me. May God, in his mercy, superintend the solution.”