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.

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

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

The only man I knew who could make a curse sound like a caress.

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

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 to enlarge the empire of the human mind.

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

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

All is fair in love and war and Parliamentary procedure.

Socialism without public ownership is nothing but a fantastic apology.

People can say what they want in the Labour Party.

Whatever you expect, you will get. So expect success, not regret.

Just be yourself, when no one believe you!

Be mindful of those who take credit for your success or blame you for their failures.

I love women. I get along with women more than men, and I have more women friends.

Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since.

When people approach you angrily, you take them very seriously, and, if you're like me, with the faint suggestion that you can be angry too, and that you would like to know what the shooting is about

Home run hitters strike out a lot.

When you hear someone from the very north of Scotland speaking, I think its nice, very musical and harmonious.

There is no true believing or trusting to the report of the gospel, but what is the effect of the working of a divine power on the soul for that end.

Unless a man believes in himself and makes a total commitment to his career and puts everything he has into it - his mind, his body, his heart - what's life worth to him?