Frasi di Alec Douglas-Home

Lord Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, conte Home of the Hirsel , è stato un politico inglese.

Ha fatto parte del Partito Conservatore.

È stato Primo ministro del Regno Unito dal 19 ottobre 1963 al 16 ottobre 1964, l'ultimo proveniente dalla Camera dei Lord. Wikipedia  

✵ 2. Luglio 1903 – 9. Ottobre 1995
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Alec Douglas-Home: Frasi in inglese

“This is a counter-revolution. After half a century of democratic advance, of social revolution, of rising expectations, the whole process has ground to a halt with a fourteenth Earl.”

"Labour would reject move to postpone M.P.s' return", The Times, 21 October 1963, p. 6.
Harold Wilson speaking at Manchester, 19 October 1963, shortly after Douglas-Home's appointment as Prime Minister.
About

“I suppose, when you come to think of it, he is the fourteenth Mr Wilson.”

David Butler and Gareth Butler, "Twentieth Century British Political Facts", p. 292.
Television interview with Kenneth Harris, 21 October 1963, responding to Wilson (see below).
Prime Minister

“No, because I do my sums with matchsticks.”

Explore Parliament website, accessed 6 September 2006 http://www.explore-parliament.net/nssMovies/03/0378/0378_.htm
Asked whether he could become Prime Minister in an interview with The Observer in 1962. The comment was taken to refer to his lack of economic ability.
Foreign Secretary

“Now you can see me in the flesh, and I don't really look as I'm made to look on television.”

D.E. Butler and Anthony King, "The British General Election of 1964", p. 147.
Remark frequently made during the 1964 general election campaign.
Prime Minister

“Why do we need wealth? Security and peace. This is our goal and we passionately seek it because it is the way of life which we are charged by our religion to practise.”

Speech to the Lord Mayor's Banquet at Guildhall (11 November 1963), quoted in The Times (12 November 1963), p. 12
Prime Minister

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