“I thought I was a Conservative. I thought I was a Conservative, but all the time I was in favour of… I was in favour of shortcuts to Utopia. I was in favour of the government doing things, because I was so impatient for good things to be done.”

— Keith Joseph

Interview in 1975, broadcast in "The Commanding Heights: The Battle of Ideas", PBS http://mksnyder.org/globalization/TCHVideoText/tchone13-19.htm.
1970s

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