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Former Financial Secretary to the Treasury

British politician who served as the Chancellor of the Exchequer. He is known for his controversial remarks on racial issues.

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“The life of nations no less than that of men is lived largely in the imagination.”

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Book:Freedom and reality

Source: Freedom and reality

“It depends on how you define the word "racialist." If you mean being conscious of the differences between men and nations, and from that, races, then we are all racialists. However, if you mean a man who despises a human being because he belongs to another race, or a man who believes that one race is inherently superior to another, then the answer is emphatically "No."”

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“I would sooner receive injustice in the Queen's courts than justice in a foreign court. I hold that man or woman to be a scoundrel who goes abroad to a foreign court to have the judgments of the Queen's courts overturned, the actions of her Government countermanded or the legislation of Parliament struck down.”

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“Lift the curtain and 'the State' reveals itself as a little group of fallible men in Whitehall, making guesses about the future, influenced by political prejudices and partisan prejudices, and working on projections drawn from the past by a staff of economists.”

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Book:Freedom and reality

Source: Freedom and reality

About the Author

Born: June 16, 1912
Died: February 8, 1998
Known for: Former Financial Secretary to the Treasury
Quotes: 52

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