Michael Foot Quotations

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.

There is nothing wrong with being a Marxist. Their point of view is essential to a democratic debate

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.

Most liberties have been won by people who broke the law

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.

A Royal Commission is a broody hen sitting on a china egg.

I certainly think that a Labour Government will have to have effective powers to control the outflow of capital.

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.

How long will it be before the cry goes up: Let's kill all the judges?

All is fair in love and war and Parliamentary procedure.