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

“No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.”

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

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

“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.”

“For example, the supporters of tariffs treat it as self-evident that the creation of jobs is a desirable end, in and of itself, regardless of what the persons employed do. That is clearly wrong. If...”

“It is not good for man to be kept perforce at all times in the presence of his species. A world from which solitude is extirpated is a very poor ideal. Solitude, in the sense of being often alone, ...”

“As technology accumulates and people in more parts of the planet become interdependent, the hatred between them tends to decrease, for the simple reason that you can't kill someone and trade with h...”

“Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.”

“But Socialism, alone, can bring self-determination of their peoples.”

“Socialism, reduced to its simplest legal and practical expression, means the complete discarding of the institution of private property by transforming it into public property, and the division of ...”