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Liberty is equally desirable to the good and to the bad, to the brave and to the dastardly.

John Major

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John Major
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 29
Autobiographer
Bank Manager
Banker
Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
Politician
London
England
Sir John Major
Rt. Hon. Sir John Major
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A country of long shadows on county cricket grounds, warm beer, green suburbs, dog lovers, and old maids cycling to holy communion through the morning mist.
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I don't have a shred of regret about entering the exchange-rate mechanism.
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I think it's extremely unlikely that the European Union will fracture with nations dropping off the edge.
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What happens when there is a conflict between the Scottish parliament, if it was established, and the Westminster parliament? Who is supreme?
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Recovery begins from the darkest moment.
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My father was 64 when I was conceived, my mother 38, which was late for babies in the 1940s.
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You don't forget crises and neither does the Queen.
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I think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument.
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Too many people looked to me in the eye and did not tell me the truth.
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I don't think nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide.
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In housing in the fifties in Britain and the sixties, we pulled down the terraces - destroyed whole communities and replaced them with tower blocks and we built walkways that became rat-runs for muggers. That was the fashionable opinion. But it was wrong.
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