Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British politician Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden.
Last updated on September 19, 2024.
Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden

Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden, PC was a British politician. A strong speaker, he became popular in trade union circles for his denunciation of capitalism as unethical and his promise of a socialist utopia. He was the first Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer, a position he held in 1924 and again between 1929 and 1931. He broke with Labour policy in 1931, and was expelled from the party and excoriated as a turncoat, as the party was overwhelmingly crushed that year by the National Government coalition that Snowden supported. He was succeeded as Chancellor by Neville Chamberlain.

There are no unemployed, either in Russia or in Dartmoor jail, and for the same reason. — © Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden
There are no unemployed, either in Russia or in Dartmoor jail, and for the same reason.
It would be desirable if every Government, when it comes to power, should have its old speeches burnt.
Truth, it has been said, is the first casualty of war.
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