We are not here in this world to find elegant solutions, pregnant with initiative, or to serve the ways and modes of profitable progress. No, we are here to provide for all those who are weaker and hungrier, more battered and crippled than ourselves. That is our only certain good and great purpose on earth, and if you ask me about those insoluble economic problems that may arise if the top is deprived of their initiative, I would answer 'To hell with them.' The top is greedy and mean and will always find a way to take care of themselves. They always do.

Think of it! A second chamber selected by the Whips. A seraglio of eunuchs.

The only man I knew who could make a curse sound like a caress.

A Royal Commission is a broody hen sitting on a china egg.

I have never been in favour of expelling people from the Labour Party.

I certainly think that a Labour Government will have to have effective powers to control the outflow of capital.

Most liberties have been won by people who broke the law.