There can be no immaculate conception of socialism.
Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.
You call that statesmanship. I call it an emotional spasm.
[Winston Churchill] never spares himself in conversation. He gives himself so generously that hardly anyone else is permitted to give anything in his presence.
The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.
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.