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.

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

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.

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

Of course my father was a great influence on me. He taught me how to read.

All is fair in love and war and Parliamentary procedure.