The Tories, every election, must have a bogy man. If you haven't got a programme, a bogy man will do.

In Germany democracy died by the headman's axe. In Britain it can be by pernicious anaemia.

No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.

This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.

The NHS will last as long as there are folk left with faith to fight for it

It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.

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.