Edward Heath

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Abhorrence of apartheid is a moral attitude, not a policy.
- Edward Heath
Collection: Attitude
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A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing.
- Edward Heath
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Unemployment is of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed.
- Edward Heath
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We may be a small island, but we are not a small people.
- Edward Heath
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I have no interest in sailing around the world. Not that there is any lack of requests for me to do so.
- Edward Heath
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We will have to embark on a change so radical, a revolution so quiet and yet so total, that it will go far beyond the programme for a parliament.
- Edward Heath
Collection: Revolution
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There is no question of any erosion of essential national sovereignty.
- Edward Heath
Collection: Erosion
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I do not often attack the Labour Party, they do it so well themselves.
- Edward Heath
Collection: Party
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Do you know what Margaret Thatcher did in her first Budget? Introduced VAT on yachts! It somewhat ruined my retirement.
- Edward Heath
Collection: Retirement
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There's a lot of people I've encouraged and helped to get into the House of Commons. Looking at them now, I'm not so sure it was a wise thing to do.
- Edward Heath
Collection: Wise
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The unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism.
- Edward Heath
Collection: Faces
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I am not a product of privilege, I am a product of opportunity.
- Edward Heath
Collection: Opportunity
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We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick... the trade union for the nation as a whole.
- Edward Heath
Collection: Children
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I think Churchill would be appalled at the Thatcher government.
- Edward Heath
Collection: Thinking
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If politicians lived on praise and thanks they'd be forced into some other line of business.
- Edward Heath
Collection: Political
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Protectionism is the institutionalization of economic failure.
- Edward Heath
Collection: Economics
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A ready smile concealed a firm mind.
- Edward Heath
Collection: Mind
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I was delighted that by campaigning throughout England, Scotland and Wales, addressing in all 39 public meetings, I had contributed to the victory of the Conservative Party at this general election.
- Edward Heath
Collection: Party
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I said it three times actually.
- Edward Heath
Collection: America
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Pitt the Younger was a great British Prime Minister. He saved Europe from Napoleon, he was the pilot who weathered the storm. I don't know whether he'd have done it any better or quicker had he been married.
- Edward Heath
Collection: Europe
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I have always had a hidden wish, a frustrated desire, to run a hotel.
- Edward Heath
Collection: Running
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We have had eight years of consistent and persistent attacks on those four years in government - and on me, personally, but that does not matter - by people who were collectively responsible for those four years.
- Edward Heath
Collection: Eight
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Leadership is all about right and wrong.
- Edward Heath
Collection: Leadership
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You mustn't expect prime ministers to enjoy themselves. If they do, they mustn't show it - the population would be horrified.
- Edward Heath
Collection: Population
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This was a secret meeting on a secret tour which nobody is supposed to know about. It means that there are men, and perhaps women, in this country walking around with eggs in their pockets, just on the off-chance of seeing the Prime Minister.
- Edward Heath
Collection: Country
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Other countries have far greater problems than we have.
- Edward Heath
Collection: Country
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Whatever the lady does is wrong. I do not know of a single right decision taken by her.
- Edward Heath
Collection: Taken
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We shall have a harder Christmas than we have known since the war.
- Edward Heath
Collection: War
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I don't think that modesty is the outstanding characteristic of contemporary politics, do you?
- Edward Heath
Collection: Thinking
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In excluding me from the shadow cabinet, Margaret Thatcher has chosen what I believe to be the only wholly honest solution and one which I accept and welcome.
- Edward Heath
Collection: Believe
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The historic role of the Conservative Party is to use the leverage of its political and diplomatic skills to create a fresh balance between the different elements within the state at those times when, for one reason or another, their imbalance threatens to disrupt the orderly development of society
- Edward Heath
Collection: Party