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