Once the bear's hug has got you, it is apt to be for keeps.

Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.

It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.

He (Aneurin Bevan) enjoys prophesying the imminent fall of the capitalist system, and is prepared to play a part, any part, in its burial, except that of mute.

After long experience of politics, I have never found that there is any inhibition caused by ignorance as regards criticism.

To be alive at all involves some risk.

Most of our people have never had it so good.