Stop-Go seemed more sensiblr than using the brake and accelerator at the same time - a practice that later became fashionable.

A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

After a long life I have come to the conclusion that when all the Establishment is united it is always wrong.

You will find the Americans much as the Greeks found the Romans: great, big, vulgar, bustling people more vigorous than we are and also more idle, with more unspoiled virtues but also more corrupt.

A Foreign Secretaryand this applies also to a prospective Foreign Secretaryis always faced with this cruel dilemma. Nothing he can say can do very much good, and almost anything he may say may do a great deal of harm. Anything he says that is not obvious is dangerous; whatever is not trite is risky. He is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.

It has been said that there is no fool like an old 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.