James Maxton quotes
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“Give us our parliament in Scotland. We will start with no traditions. We will start with ideals. We will start with purpose, with courage. We will start with the aim and object that there will be 134 men and women, pledged to 134 Scottish constituencies, to spend their whole brain power, their whole courage and their whole soul in making Scotland into a country in which we can take people from all the nations of the earth and say: this is our land, this is our Scotland, these are our people, these are our men, our works, our women and children: can you beat it?”
-- James MaxtonSource : Maria W. Stewart, Marilyn Richardson (1987). “Maria W. Stewart, America's First Black Woman Political Writer: Essays and Speeches”, p.9, Indiana University Press
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“If you can't ride two horses at once, you shouldn't be in the circus.”
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“In the interests of economy they condemned hundreds of children to death and I call it murder.”
-- James MaxtonSource : 1923 Speech against the withdrawal of child benefits, including the supply of milk, in Scotland. In Hansard, 27 Jun.
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“All I say is, if you cannot ride two horses you have no right in the circus.”
-- James MaxtonSource : Opposing disaffiliation of the Scottish Independent Labour Party from the Labour Party, in 'Daily Herald' 12 January 1931 (often quoted as '...no right in the bloody circus')
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