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6. Humans are "ends in themselves"

  • Adam Smith
  • Immanuel Kant
  • Thomas Hobbes
  • Jeremy Bentham

7. Politics should be "a conversation not an argument"

  • Michael Oakeshott
  • Margaret Thatcher
  • Edmund Burke
  • Ed Milliband

8. Thatcher was "selling off the family silver"

  • Tony Blair
  • Harold Macmillan
  • Iain Duncan-Smith
  • John Prescott

9. "Conservatism is not so much a philosophy as an attitude"

  • Neil McNaughton
  • William Beveridge
  • Lord Halisham
  • Andrew Heywood

10. "Government even in its best state is a necessary evil"

  • Thomas the tank engine
  • Thomas Hobbes
  • Thomas Paine
  • Thomas Jefferson

11. "the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short"

  • John Stuart Mill
  • Thomas Hobbes
  • Voltaire
  • Karl Marx

12. "The common ownership of the means production, distribution and exchange"

  • Old Clause 4
  • New Clause 4

13. "The government is best which governs least"

  • Jeremy Bentham
  • Thomas Hobbes
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • John Stuart Mill

14. "A starving man is not free"

  • William Beveridge
  • Adam Smith
  • John Maynard Keynes
  • Robert Owen