"The politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour."

“If, of course, one builds into the concept of an 'individual' all that Professor Hayek does in his Road To Serfdom, Individualism and Economic Order and many other works, which is, to put it briefly, the whole of laisser-faire economic theory, then plainly man as such a programmed predator has very little interest in being fraternal, or very little chance.”

“A politics of vengeance is not politics. Revenge is a recklessness towards the future in a vain attempt to make the present abolish a suffering which is already past.”

“If a government is to do great new things, it will need more support. If a government is to change the world, it will need mass support. This is one of the discoveries of modern government.”

“To Marx the claim of the theory of ideology is that all doctrine is a derivative of social circumstance.”

“Since the business of politics is the conciliation of differing interests, justice must not merely be done, but to be seen to be done.”

“Quite apart from the prestige of technology, people do, after all, prefer a simple idea to a complex one.”