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.

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

A speech from Ernest Bevin on a major occasion had all the horrific fascination of a public execution. If the mind was left immune, eyes and ears and emotions were riveted.

He's passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever.

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

How long will it be before the cry goes up: "Let's kill all the judges"?

Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power.