If you let that sort of thing go on, your bread and butter will be cut right out from under your feet.

It was like a life-line to a sinking man. It seemed to bring hope where there was none. The generosity of it was beyond our belief.

Foreign policy isn't something that is great and big, it's common sense and humanity as it applies to my affairs and yours.

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

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.

What astounds me about the history of the British Navy is how cheaply we have policed the world for 300 years.

Civilisation cannot survive if it rests on a propertyless proletariat.