Speech to the Parliamentary Press Gallery (9 June 1980)
“In a Britain increasingly dominated by extremists and ideologues, I want us to fill the huge gap in the centre of British politics.”
Vince Cable: I can lead Lib Dems back to power https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41307116, BBC News, 19 September 2017
2017
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Announcing his departure from UKIP https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/12/04/heavy-heart-leaving-ukip-not-brexit-party-nation-badly-needs/, 4 December 2018
2018
That death caught people rather unawares. Do not discount the possibility that in a few years time someone may be able to write at least equally convincingly of the strange and rapid revival of liberal social democratic Britain.
Speech to the Parliamentary Press Gallery (9 June 1980), quoted in The Times (10 June 1980), p. 2
1980s
Interview with Senator Beveridge (March 1915), Paul Dehn, Hindenburg, als Erzieher (1918), p. 43, quoted in W. W. Coole (ed.), Thus Spake Germany (London: George Routledge & Sons, 1941), p. 174
Supreme Commander of All German Forces in the East
“Britain is the only colony in the British Empire and it is up to us now to liberate ourselves.”
Speech to the Labour Party Conference in Blackpool (2 October 1972); Labour Party Annual Conference Report (1972), p. 103
1970s
On Poetry: Poetry, a Rhapsody (1733)
Source: Textual politics: Discourse and social dynamics, 1995, p. 48