Quotes by Michael Foot - Page 1

People can say what they want in the Labour Party.
Michael Foot / Former Leader Of The Labour Party
Party
People
Want
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She has no imagination and that means no compassion.
Michael Foot / Former Leader Of The Labour Party
Imagination
Compassion
She
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All is fair in love and war and Parliamentary procedure.
Michael Foot / Former Leader Of The Labour Party
War
Tattoo
Wonderful Love
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Most liberties have been won by people who broke the law.
Michael Foot / Former Leader Of The Labour Party
Law
Liberty
People
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You can have a wages policy imposed by mass unemployment.
Michael Foot / Former Leader Of The Labour Party
Economics
Unemployment
Wages
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A Royal Commission is a broody hen sitting on a china egg.
Michael Foot / Former Leader Of The Labour Party
China
Eggs
Hens
Royal
Sitting
Commission
Egg
Hen
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The only man I knew who could make a curse sound like a caress.
Michael Foot / Former Leader Of The Labour Party
Men
Curse
Sound
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Socialism without public ownership is nothing but a fantastic apology.
Michael Foot / Former Leader Of The Labour Party
Apology
Fantastic
Socialism
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I have never been in favour of expelling people from the Labour Party.
Michael Foot / Former Leader Of The Labour Party
Favour
Party
People
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There are judges who stretch the law... to suit reactionary attitudes.
Michael Foot / Former Leader Of The Labour Party
Attitude
Judging
Law
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How long will it be before the cry goes up: "Let's kill all the judges"?
Michael Foot / Former Leader Of The Labour Party
Cry
Judging
Long
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Of course my father was a great influence on me. He taught me how to read.
Michael Foot / Former Leader Of The Labour Party
Fatherhood
Fathers Day
Taught
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Think of it! A second chamber selected by the Whips. A seraglio of eunuchs.
Michael Foot / Former Leader Of The Labour Party
Chamber
Selected
Thinking
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Politicians live in little worlds of their own and imagine these are the universe.
Michael Foot / Former Leader Of The Labour Party
Imagine
Littles
World
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Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power.
Michael Foot / Former Leader Of The Labour Party
Men
He Man
Reading
Time Power Men
Read
No Time
Unfit
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He's passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever.
Michael Foot / Former Leader Of The Labour Party
Politics
Intervening
Political
Rising
Period
Elder
Passed
Statesman
Whatsoever
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There is nothing wrong with being a Marxist. Their point of view is essential to a democratic debate.
Michael Foot / Former Leader Of The Labour Party
Debate
Essentials
Views
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I certainly think that a Labour Government will have to have effective powers to control the outflow of capital.
Michael Foot / Former Leader Of The Labour Party
Government
Labour
Thinking
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People must learn more and more that the strength of this country is the democratic power of the trade union movement.
Michael Foot / Former Leader Of The Labour Party
Country
Movement
People
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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.
Michael Foot / Former Leader Of The Labour Party
Leader
Political
Rising
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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.
Michael Foot / Former Leader Of The Labour Party
Favourite
Gladstone
Simple
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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.
Michael Foot / Former Leader Of The Labour Party
Believe
Coal
People
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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.
Michael Foot / Former Leader Of The Labour Party
Bed
Looks
Secret
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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.
Michael Foot / Former Leader Of The Labour Party
Eye
Fascination
Mind
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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.
Michael Foot / Former Leader Of The Labour Party
Empires
Mind
Opinion
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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
Michael Foot / Former Leader Of The Labour Party
Insanity
Nuclear
Would Be
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Is the Labour Party to remain a democratic party in which the right of free criticism and free debate is not merely tolerated but encouraged? Or are the rank and file of the party to be bludgeoned or cowed into an uncritical subservience towards the leadership?
Michael Foot / Former Leader Of The Labour Party
Criticism
Debate
Party
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I've been on the left of the Party since I joined it about 1934 and I haven't seen much reason for altering... I have always been a strong libertarian both inside the Labour Party and outside... what I want to seek to do over a period of course is to establish a Socialist society.
Michael Foot / Former Leader Of The Labour Party
Party
Strong
Want
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It does so happen to be the case that if the freedom of the people of this country - and especially the rights of trade unionists - if those precious things in the past had been left to the good sense and fairmindedness of judges, we would have precious few freedoms in this country.
Michael Foot / Former Leader Of The Labour Party
Country
Past
Rights
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Of all the sights and sounds which attracted me on my first arrival to live in London in the mid-thirties, one combined operation left a lingering, individual spell. I naturally went to Hyde Park to hear the orators, the best of the many free entertainments on offer in the capital. I heard the purest milk of the world flowing, then as now, from the platform of the Socialist Party of Great Britain.
Michael Foot / Former Leader Of The Labour Party
Party
Sight
World
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We are not here in this world to find elegant solutions, pregnant with initiative, or to serve the ways and modes of profitable progress. No, we are here to provide for all those who are weaker and hungrier, more battered and crippled than ourselves. That is our only certain good and great purpose on earth, and if you ask me about those insoluble economic problems that may arise if the top is deprived of their initiative, I would answer 'To hell with them.' The top is greedy and mean and will always find a way to take care of themselves. They always do.
Michael Foot / Former Leader Of The Labour Party
Common Purpose
Helping Others
Mean
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