James Callaghan Quotes

• Either back us or sack us.

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• A lie can travel halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on.

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• There is no virtue in producing socially well adjusted members of society who are unemployed because they do not have the skills. Nor at the other extreme must they be technically efficient robots.

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• Britain has lived for too long on borrowed time, borrowed money, and even borrowed ideas.

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• I’ve never been one to say that Britain was joining a happy band of brothers.

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• You can never reach the promised land. You can march towards it.

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• If the law is a bad law, there is always the contingent right to take action that you would not otherwise take.

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• Your strike will not win. You cannot be allowed to succeed.

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• I am not proposing to seek your votes because there is a blue sky ahead today.

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• There is not a single injustice in Northern Ireland that is worth the loss of a single British soldier or a single Irish citizen either.

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• There are no instant solutions.

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• The rule of law should be upheld by all political parties. They should neither advise others to break the law, nor encourage others to do so even when they strongly disagree with the legislation put forward by the government of the day.

  James Callaghan

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  Tags in Government, Disagree, Upheld

• I sum up the prospects for 1967 in three short sentences. We are back on course. The ship is picking up speed. The economy is moving. Every seaman knows the command at such a moment: ‘steady as she goes’.

  James Callaghan

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• I am rather in favour of dealing with teenage hooliganism.

  James Callaghan

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• A leader has to ‘appear’ consistent. That doesn’t mean he has to be consistent.

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• A lie can be halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on.

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• Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions.

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• A leader must have the courage to act against an expert’s advice.

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James Callaghan (18)

Birth:	27th March, 1912
Death:	26th March, 2005
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Politician

About

James Callaghan was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, United Kingdom. He was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1976 to 1979 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1976 to 1980. He is to date the only politician in history to have served in all four of the "Great Offices of State", having been Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1964 to 1967, Home Secretary from 1967 to 1970, and Foreign Secretary from 1974, until his appointment as Prime Minister in 1976.

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