The members of our secret service have apparently spent so much time under the bed looking for communists that they haven't had the time to look in t….

It does so happen to be the case that if the freedom of the people of this country - and especially the rights of trade unionists - if those precious….

All is fair in love and war and Parliamentary procedure..

Is the Labour Party to remain a democratic party in which the right of free criticism and free debate is not merely tolerated but encouraged? Or are ….

Politicians live in little worlds of their own and imagine these are the universe..

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….

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

Disraeli was my favourite Tory. He was an adventurer pure and simple, or impure and complex. I'm glad to say Gladstone got the better of him..

You can have a wages policy imposed by mass unemployment..

No rising hope on the political scene who offered his services to Labour when I happened to be its leader can be dismissed as an opportunist..

People must learn more and more that the strength of this country is the democratic power of the trade union movement..

Socialism without public ownership is nothing but a fantastic apology..

There is nothing wrong with being a Marxist. Their point of view is essential to a democratic debate..

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

In my opinion, Marxism is a great creed of human liberation. It is the creed which says that when all other empires fade and vanish, our business is ….

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..

I've been on the left of the Party since I joined it about 1934 and I haven't seen much reason for altering... I have always been a strong libertaria….

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

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