A newspaper has three things to do. One is to amuse, another is to entertain and the rest is to mislead.

There has been great excitement at the prospect that this atomic bomb or atomic energy is likely to produce great industrial energy very quickly, I do not believe it at all.

If the workers see themselves faced with defeat through starvation, they will prefer to go down fighting rather than fainting - and whether or not we leaders agree.

There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, could not have been prevented ... The common man, I think, is the great protection against war.

The most conservative man in this world is the British trade unionist when you want to change him.

Civilisation cannot survive if it rests on a propertyless proletariat.

A newspaper has three things to do. One is to amuse, another is to entertain and the rest is to mislead.