Labour Quotes

Genius can never despise labour.

I admire Peter Mandleson’s chutzpah and the way he transformed the Labour party but not his dubious ideas about Europe and industrial policy.

the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.

Cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all one glow of beauty and never cease chiselling your statue.

And I observe that for the vast majority of the Labour government we had a top rate of 40 per cent income tax. It’s now higher, and I think we should look to get to a simpler, lower tax system.

There can be no rise in the value of labour without a fall of profits.

I’m going on, and the Labour government’s going on.

The ambition of the present Labour government is that every worker in the country will have a greater than average income.

The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

We are fighting a Labour Party whose avowed enemy is capitalist bosses, whose instinct is to see income as a common pool resource, and whose leading figures find profit morally repugnant.