"I am not anti-American...but I do not believe that the American nation has the experience, sagacity, or the self-restraint necessary for world leadership at this time. They are engaged in the most tremendous rearmament programme the world has ever seen, and I cannot see any sense in it, and no one has yet tried to put any sense in it. ... When are we going to have some sense of national pride and tell the United States that she cannot have Great Britain on any terms? The Americans would understand us. They like plain speaking. Why do we not speak plainly to them?"

“Just consider, all the little nations running for shelter here and there, one running to Russia and another to the United States. In that situation before anything else would happen, the world will have been polarised between the Soviet Union and the United States. It is against that negative polarisation we have been fighting for years. We want to have the opportunity to interpose between these two giants a moderating, modifying and mitigating diplomacy.”

“The Labour Party should oppose the Government arms plan root and branch.”

“The language of priorities is the religion of socialism.”

“Speeches on the NHS at Socialist Health Association”

“If the Labour Party is not going to be a Socialist Party, I don't want to lead it.”

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