24 Quotes by Ernest Bevin

Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.

The main issue (in Kashmir) was who would control the main artery into Central Asia.

If you open that Pandora’s Box you never know what Trojan ’orses will jump out.

If the workers see themselves faced with defeat through starvation, they will prefer to go down fighting rather than fainting – and whether or not we leaders agree.

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 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.