Ernest Bevin
Ernest Bevin
Ernest Bevinwas a British statesman, trade union leader, and Labour politician. He co-founded and served as general secretary of the powerful Transport and General Workers' Union from 1922 to 1940, and as Minister of Labour in the war-time coalition government. He succeeded in maximizing the British labour supply, for both the armed services and domestic industrial production, with a minimum of strikes and disruption. His most important role came as Foreign Secretary in the post-war Labour Government, 1945–51. He gained...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPublic Servant
Date of Birth9 March 1881
Ernest Bevin quotes about
Civilisation cannot survive if it rests on a propertyless proletariat.
If you open that Pandora's Box (the Council of Europe), you never know what Trojan 'orses will jump out
It is placing the Executive and the Movement in an absolutely wrong position to be hawking your conscience round from body to body asking to be told what you ought to do with it.
There 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.
Foreign policy isn't something that is great and big, it's common sense and humanity as it applies to my affairs and yours.
There should be a study of a house directly elected by the people of the world to whom the nations are accountable.
If you let that sort of thing go on, your bread and butter will be cut right out from under your feet.
What astounds me about the history of the British Navy is how cheaply we have policed the world for 300 years.
It was like a life-line to a sinking man. It seemed to bring hope where there was none. The generosity of it was beyond our belief.
If you open that Pandora's Box you never know what Trojan 'orses will jump out.
Ernest Bevin had many of the strongest characteristics of the English race. His manliness, his common sense, his rough simplicity, sturdiness and kind heart, easy geniality and generosity, all are qualities which we who live in the southern part of this famous island regard with admiration.
A newspaper has three things to do. One is to amuse, another is to entertain and the rest is to mislead.
There 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.
The most conservative man in this world is the British trade unionist when you want to change him.