Quotes of: Labour-government Keyword

We need an equal opportunity society, one in which government does not see its job as picking winners and losers. Where do you go if you want special favors? Government. Where do you go if you want a tax break? Government. Where do you go if you want...

Bobby Jindal

Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression. In our Governments the real power lies in the majority of the Community, and the invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from acts of Government con...

James Madison

And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art.

John B. S. Haldane

If little labour, little are our gains: Man's fortunes are according to his pains.

Hesperides

Labour is blossoming or dancing where The body is not bruised to pleasure soul.

The Tower

We have laboured long to build a heaven, only to find it populated with horrors.

Watchmen

I don't always vote in general elections, but I think I've always voted Labour.

Paul Merton

Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.

Tony Blair

Costs of manufactured articles importantly depend on the cost of raw materials as well as labour.

Charles E. Wilson

My first real experience of ambition was as party leader. It was my ambition for Labour to win, in which event I would be prime minister.

Neil Kinnock

Today, Labour has a disruptive economic narrative - that Britain needs fundamental change in its market structure and culture to compete in the modern world.

David Miliband

To say of a picture, as is often said in its praise, that it shows great and earnest labour, is to say that it is incomplete and unfit for view.

James Whistler

Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.

Owen Arthur

The labour Party has lost the last four elections. If they lose another, they get to keep the liberal party.

Clive Anderson

My Scottish Labour Party is a crusade - to fight poverty, inequality and injustice.

Johann Lamont

Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.

William Butler Yeats

If women had never been given the right to vote, then Labour would have won every election after the war.

Ken Livingstone

When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd blows his nail, And Tom bears logs into the hall, And milk comes frozen home in pail, When blood is nipp'd, and ways be foul, Then nightly sings the staring owl, To-whit! To-who!—a merry note, Wh...

Love's Labour's Lost

Then a ploughman said , speak to us of work : in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life , And to love life throught labour is to be intimate with inmost secrets . And what is it to work with love ? it is to weave the colth with thr...

The Prophet

The Labour party on the whole has not been a very effective opposition since the election, partly because it spent months and months electing its new leader. I think the Labour party should, for one thing, stress much more that for most people in the...

Eric J. Hobsbawm

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government has grown out of too much government.

John Sharp Williams