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