“My policy is to be able to take a ticket at Victoria station and go anywhere I damn well please!”

— Ernest Bevin

Attributed to Bevin in the Spectator, 20 April 1951.
Bevin's definition of his foreign policy. Variously quoted as "to be able to buy a ticket at Victoria Station to anywhere I damn please!".

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