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William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw
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“They are going up and down the country, stirring up apathy.”
William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw (1918–1999) first seen 1970 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On Labour's 1970 general election campaign, quoted in his obituaries in the Guardian, and Independent
“I always think that it is entirely wrong to prejudge the past.”
William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw (1918–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[A Conservative government would operate a glasshouse system of detention centres for some of those young people] so that they receive a short sharp shock treatment which I hope will deter at least some of them from getting enmeshed deeper in the mire of crime.”
William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw (1918–1999) first seen 1977 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From a speech in Birmingham (8 August 1977) during the Ladywood by-election campaign, cited in The Times (9 August 1977), p. 2