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.

The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.

Discontent arises from a knowledge of the possible, as contrasted with the actual.

He brings to the fierce struggle of politics the tepid enthusiasm of a lazy summer afternoon at a cricket match.

Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets

Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget thee.

How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics in the twentieth century.