Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget thee.

Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future.

The Tories always hold the view that the state is an apparatus for the protection of the swag of the property owners ... Christ drove the money changers out of the temple, but you inscribe their title deed on the altar cloth.

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

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

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

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