Norman Tebbit Quotes

1931–2025, British Statesman · Wikipedia · Wikidata
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“The word ''conservative'' is used by the BBC as a portmanteau word of abuse for anyone whose views differ from the insufferable, smug, sanctimonious, naive, guilt-ridden, wet, pink orthodoxy of that sunset home of the third-rate minds of that third-rate decade, the nineteen-sixties.”
VerifiedThe Independent (24 February, 1990). · evidenceDetails & citeConservatives
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“Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but it's quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves.”
Parliament
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“It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death of socialism.”
Socializing and Socialism
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