“Never is liberty more easily lost than when we think we are defending it.”

We have a great objective – the light on the hill – which we aim to reach by working for the betterment of mankind not only here but anywhere we may give a helping hand. If it were not for that, the Labour movement would not be worth fighting for.

The job of the evangelist is never easy.

It’s no good crying over spilt milk; all we can do is bail up another cow

One man and a dozen fools would govern better than one man alone.

Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.

Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.

So I like the work he’s doing, and I support it, and I realise that he’s one of very few political leaders around the world that actually has early-childhood development strategise at the top of his agenda.

There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.

Fascism is definitely and absolutely opposed to the doctrines of liberalism, both in the political and economic sphere.

[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics