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No society can legitimately call itself civilized if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means.

The language of priorities is the religion of socialism.

Virtue is its own punishment.

He [Winston Churchill] is a man suffering from petrified adolescence.

It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.

You call that statesmanship. I call it an emotional spasm.

A Society in which the people's wants do not exceed their possessions is not a Socialist society.

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

Politics is a blood sport.

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

The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the Right Honorable Gentleman for four and a half years.

The Tories, every election, must have a bogy man. If you haven't got a programme, a bogy man will do.

Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets

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

He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.

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.

He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind.

There can be no immaculate conception of socialism.

It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world.

There are two ways of getting into the Cabinet - you can crawl in or kick your way in.

What should be the glory of the profession is that a doctor should be able to meet his patients with no financial anxiety.

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

Poor fellow, he suffers from files.

This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.

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

I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine.

Trade unions are islands of anarchy in a sea of chaos.

Listening to a speech by [Neville] Chamberlain is like paying a visit to Woolworth's, everything in its place and nothing above sixpence.

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

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

Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future.

This is my truth, tell me yours.

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

The hero's need of the people outlasts their need of him.

Discontent arises from a knowledge of the possible, as contrasted with the actual.

Advertising is 'an evil service'.

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

Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget thee.

We should not be pushing out figured when the facts are in the opposite direction.

Why should I question the monkey when I can question the organ grinder.

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

He brings to the fierce struggle of politics the tepid enthusiasm of a lazy summer afternoon at a cricket match.

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