I know that the right kind of leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine who must not in any way permit himself to be swayed by indignation. If he sees suffering, privation or injustice he must not allow it to move him, for that would be evidence of the lack of proper education or of absence of self-control. He must speak in calm and objective accents and talk about a dying child in the same way as he would about the pieces inside an internal combustion engine.

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

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

Poor fellow, he suffers from files.

What should be the glory of the profession is that a doctor should be able to meet his patients with no financial anxiety.

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

We should not be pushing out figured when the facts are in the opposite direction.