Michael Foot Quotes
In my opinion, Marxism is a great creed of human liberation. It is the creed which says that when all other empires fade and vanish, our business is to enlarge the empire of the human mind.
He's passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever.
People must learn more and more that the strength of this country is the democratic power of the trade union movement.
No rising hope on the political scene who offered his services to Labour when I happened to be its leader can be dismissed as an opportunist.
I certainly think that a Labour Government will have to have effective powers to control the outflow of capital.
A Britain which denounced the insanity of the nuclear strategy would be in a position to direct its influence at the United Nations and in the world at large, in a manner at present denied us
There is nothing wrong with being a Marxist. Their point of view is essential to a democratic debate.
The members of our secret service have apparently spent so much time under the bed looking for communists that they haven't had the time to look in the bed.
A speech from Ernest Bevin on a major occasion had all the horrific fascination of a public execution. If the mind was left immune, eyes and ears and emotions were riveted.
Disraeli was my favourite Tory. He was an adventurer pure and simple, or impure and complex. I'm glad to say Gladstone got the better of him.
The national strike of the miners in 1972 performed, I believe, a great service, not only to the miners, but the people in Britain today who wanted coal.
