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

There can be no immaculate conception of socialism.

He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.

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

We could manage to survive without money changers and stockbrokers. We should find it harder to do without miners, steel workers and those who cultivate the land.

I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one.

I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.