Damn it all you can't have the crown of thorns and the thirty pieces of silver.

I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.

You don't have to gaze into a crystal ball when you can read an open book.

I welcome this opportunity of pricking the bloated bladder of lies with the poniard of truth

I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one.

Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Politics is a blood sport.

There is only one hope for mankind and that is democratic Socialism.

This is my truth, tell me yours.

The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.

If freedom is to be saved and enlarged, poverty must be ended. There is no other solution.

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

The NHS will last as long as there are folk left with faith to fight for it

To every man of us, Tobruk was a symbol of British resistance and we were now going to finish with it for good.

I would rather he had given me one more division

It's better for one to die than for all of us to be killed in a shooting affray. Anyway, we've practically no ammunition.