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.

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

He [Winston Churchill] is a man suffering from petrified adolescence.

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

There are two ways of getting into the Cabinet - you can crawl in or kick your way in.

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.

A Society in which the people's wants do not exceed their possessions is not a Socialist society.