“The desolation of loneliness is terrible. Was I wise? Perhaps not, but it seemed as though anything else was impossible.”

— Ramsay MacDonald

Notebook entry (27 December 1932) on his estrangement from the Labour Party, quoted in David Marquand, ‘ MacDonald, (James) Ramsay (1866–1937) http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/34704,’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2009
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British statesman; prime minister of the United Kingdom 1866–1937

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