Bernard Crick (1929–2008) British political theorist and democratic socialist
Source: In Defence Of Politics (Second Edition) – 1981, Chapter 6, A Defence of Politics Against False Friends, p. 115.
“A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.”
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