The Tories always hold the view that the state is an apparatus for the protection of the swag of the property owners ... Christ drove the money changers out of the temple, but you inscribe their title deed on the altar cloth.

I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine.

He [Winston Churchill] is a man suffering from petrified adolescence.

There is only one hope for mankind - and that is democratic Socialism.

I welcome this opportunity of pricking the bloated bladder of lies with the poniard of truth

You call that statesmanship. I call it an emotional spasm.

Why should I question the monkey when I can question the organ grinder.