"I may be ready to be polite 20 years from now, when we are able to look back on 25 years of Socialist government. Then maybe I won't have enough energy to be rude. But while we have the energy to be rude let us be rude to the right people."

“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.”