There is nothing government can give you that it hasn't taken from you in the first place.

The trade unions are a long-established and essential part of our national life. We take our stand by these pillars of our British society as it has gradually developed and evolved itself, of the right of individual labouring men to adjust their wages and conditions by collective bargaining, including the right to strike.

I always like to learn, but I don't always like to be taught.

Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found.

No one can understand history without continually relating the long periods which are constantly mentioned to the experiences of our own short lives.

Books, in all their variety, offer the human intellect the means whereby civilisation may be carried triumphantly forward.

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.