Jo Grimond: Quotes about homeland

Jo Grimond was British soldier, politician and academic. Explore interesting quotes on country.

Jo Grimond: 26 quotes0 likes

“After listening to the debate on unemployment I can see a danger that Liberals lose to the Tories their claim to have new and sensible ideas and are left saying "Me too" to a Socialist conventional wisdom which is failing…The salient need of this country—to produce more and much more efficiently—hardly figured on the agenda.”

The Sunday Times (19 September, 1976).

“Our long-term objective is clear: to replace the Labour Party as the progressive wing of politics in this country.”

November 1953, quoted in Alan Watkins The Liberal Dilemma (Macgibbon and Kee, 1966) p. 91.

“We should not delude ourselves into thinking that an incomes policy is other than a serious infringement of freedom…Nor have the Liberals explained how it is to be worked, and even if they had, it is certainly not a permanent answer to our economic troubles…At present, the Liberal-Social Democratic Alliance occasionally looks too much like a half-way house on the old road to state socialism. It will spend more than the Tories but rather less than Labour…Such compromises may win votes, but they will not improve the country.”

In the Journal of Economic Affairs (October, 1981).