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My policy is to be able to take a ticket at Victoria station and go anywhere I damn well please!
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Attributed to Bevin in the Spectator, 20 April 1951.
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Bevin's definition of his foreign policy. Variously quoted as "to be able to buy a ticket at Victoria Station to anywhere I damn please!".

 

Ernest Bevin

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