A young man who isn't a socialist hasn't got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn't got a head.

The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.

No democracy has ever long survived the failure of its adherents to be ready to die for it. My own conviction is this, the people must either go on or go under.

Four specters haunt the Poor - Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcise them. We are going to drive hunger from the hearth. We mean to banish the workhouse from the horizon of every workman in the land.

When they circumcised Herbert Samuel they threw away the wrong bit

You get to know more of the character of a man in a round of golf than in six months of political experience.

A young man who isn't a socialist hasn't got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn't got a head.