I remember people who'd had a lot of hardship during the war. They'd thought we'd won.

If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s.

And that will increasingly dawn on people. The demand for controlling the commanding heights will grow.

What we set out to do was to ensure that this system of fair shares and the planning and controls continued after the war, and when we won, that's what we did.

He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit.

That was not what men and women fought for during the war.

It might have been offset for us if the revenue from our own oil and natural gas that was just developing had been available to the Labor Government, but the oil revenues were just coming in when Labor fell in '79.

I remember people who'd had a lot of hardship during the war. They'd thought we'd won.

Those were the ideals that drove us to nationalization of the health service.

And what always struck me about that war period was how even Churchill had to talk socialism to keep up people's morale.

It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.

Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion.

In politics, guts is all.

There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very degrading, very humiliating. And there was a means test for receiving poor relief.

Why not pool your resources? And so we broke into the concept of the sacredness of private property.

Another example of that was that even during the economic problems of the 1945 government, we managed to carry out other aspects of our policy and other ideals. Through the establishment of national parks, for instance.

And that had a powerful appeal, particularly to those who had been denied the choice to stay on at school, to go to university, to be something else, other than going down the pit.

You see, another reason for nationalization was that private ownership meant fragmentation.

It was very much a cry for democratic control at that time. Above all, breaking the accomplished power of a few people to rule the lives of everybody else.

I remember a big meeting with the hosiery trade in Harold's ministerial room.

Then, with lots of people doing that without ever looking over their shoulders to see how they were affecting anybody else, it couldn't work, and it didn't work, and it just came to a standstill.

Large motorway flyovers are the cathedrals of the modern world.

We assume that celebrities have it easy and so love to watch them having to endure a bit of hardship.

South Koreans who have seen and praised the mass games should remember the hardship of tearful children. Teachers drive them hard with curses and orders to repeat and repeat. When the children return home in the evening, they can hardly walk.

At times I experience hardship in trying to find the proper point of balance between traditional things and my own personality.

We have to remember that no matter how much hardship we go through in our life, there is always going to be that fragile place in our heart.

Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.

Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense.

When certain branches of the economy become obsolete, as in the case of the steel industry, not only do jobs disappear, which is obviously a terrible social hardship, but certain cultures also disappear.

No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.

I remember people who'd had a lot of hardship during the war. They'd thought we'd won.

So we need people who will remain steadfast in any hardship and who have a high degree of resistance.

Our theme for this year's festivities, Dreams and Challenges of Asian Pacific Americans, speaks to the many generations of Asian Pacific Americans who worked hard to overcome economic hardship, racism and other barriers in their pursuit of the American dream.

The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.

It matters not what your individual position is on either war we are currently prosecuting - in Iraq or Afghanistan - certainly we can all agree protesting at military funerals is a cruel and unnecessary hardship on our military families during their most difficult hour.

Studies have consistently shown that financial hardship is the biggest obstacle to heterosexual marriage, yet the Republican leadership has done precious little to help address the financial hardship faced by American families.

I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.

Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social ostracism, the invasion of your privacy, are what constitute the pain of poverty.

Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.

Let me say no danger and no hardship ever makes me wish to get back to that college life again.

As I grew older, I came to feel more responsible for any hardship or trouble my career caused my family.

Hardship makes the world obscure.

Maybe it's the music that enables them to function like that, to always take everything as it comes and never complain about the misery, hardship or injustice.

A key to strengthening spiritual muscles and enduring hardship is finding strength in the Word of God.

There is no success without hardship.

The hardship of living in a refugee camp made me psychologically strong.

The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

And at no point did making 'Brothers McMullen' feel like work or hardship. It was really just a matter of 11 days of fun over the course of 8 months.