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We have invited and continue to invite the Left Socialist-Revolutionaries to share power with us.
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We have invited and continue to invite the Left Socialist-Revolutionaries to share power with us.
I am not sure what is meant by those who say that the Party should return to something called "One Nation Conservatism". As far as I can tell by their views on European federalism, such people's creed would be better described as "No Nation Conservatism".
True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?
But government in which the majority rule in all cases can not be based on justice, even as far as men understand it.
What the Soviet Constitution gives us no other state has been able to give in two hundred years.
Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children.
Social unrest and a deepening sense of unfairness are dangers to our national life which we must minimize by rigorous methods. People know that vast personal incomes come not only through the effort or ability or luck of those who receive them, but also because of the opportunities for advantage which Government itself contributes. Therefore, the duty rests upon the Government to restrict such incomes by very high taxes.
It is not true that people of high principles are ill-suited for politics. High principles have only to be accompanied by patience, consideration, a sense of measure and understanding for others. It is not true that only coldhearted, cynical, arrogant, haughty or brawling persons succeed in politics. Such people are naturally attracted by politics. In the end, however, politeness and good manners weigh more.
I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.
Government can do a great deal to aid the settlement of labor disputes without allowing itself to be employed as an ally of either side. Its proper role in industrial strife is to encourage the process of mediation and conciliation.