24 Quotes by Ernest Bevin

Il regno dei cieli si fonderà pure sulla giustizia, ma il regno della terra si fonda sul petrolio.

There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, could not have been prevented ... The common man, I think, is the great protection against war.

The most conservative man in this world is the British trade unionist when you want to change him.

If you open that Pandora's Box (the Council of Europe), you never know what Trojan 'orses will jump out

It is placing the Executive and the Movement in an absolutely wrong position to be hawking your conscience round from body to body asking to be told what you ought to do with it.

There has been great excitement at the prospect that this atomic bomb or atomic energy is likely to produce great industrial energy very quickly, I do not believe it at all.

Foreign policy isn't something that is great and big, it's common sense and humanity as it applies to my affairs and yours.

There should be a study of a house directly elected by the people of the world to whom the nations are accountable.

If you let that sort of thing go on, your bread and butter will be cut right out from under your feet.