William Heath Robinson

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    “he might have been a Roosian,
    A French, or Turk, or Proosian,
    Or perhaps Itali-an!
    But in spite of all temptations,
    To belong to other nations,
    He remains an Englishman!”
    —Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

    “We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick ... the trade union for the nation as a whole.”
    —Edward Heath (b. 1916)

    “Give him the darkest inch your shelf allows,
    Hide him in lonely garrets, if you will,—
    But his hard, human pulse is throbbing still
    With the sure strength that fearless truth endows.”
    —Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)