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Michael Foot Biography

Michael Mackintosh Foot FRSL (23 July 1913 – 3 March 2010) was a British Labour Party politician and man of letters. Foot began his career as a journalist, becoming editor of Tribune on several occasions, and the Evening Standard newspaper at the age of just 28. He co-wrote the classic polemic against appeasement of Adolf Hitler, Guilty Men, under a pseudonym.

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Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power.

He Man, Men, Read, Reading, Time

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.

Altering, Course, Joined, Party, Strong, Want

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

Eggs, Hen, Hens, Royal, Sitting

People must learn more and more that the strength of this country is the democratic power of the trade union movement

Country, Democratic, Movement, People

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

Business, Empires, Human, Marxism, Mind, Opinion

I have never been in favour of expelling people from the Labour Party.

Expelling, Favour, Labour, Party, People

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.

Common Purpose, Economic, Good, Helping Others, Mean, Weaker

The only man I knew who could make a curse sound like a caress.

Curse, Make, Men, Sound

[There are] judges who stretch the law. . . to suit reactionary attitudes.

Attitude, Attitudes, Judges, Judging, Law

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.

Country, Good, Left, Past, Rights, Sense

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

Debate, Democratic, Essential, Essentials, Views, Wrong

You can have a wages policy imposed by mass unemployment.

Economics, Imposed, Policy, Unemployment, Wages

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.

Dismissed, Happened, Labour, Leader, Political, Rising

Most liberties have been won by people who broke the law

Broke, Law, Liberty, People, Won

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?

Criticism, Debate, File, Free, Party, Tolerated

All is fair in love and war and Parliamentary procedure.

Love, Parliamentary, Tattoo, War, Wonderful Love

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

Control, Effective, Government, Labour, Thinking

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

Denounced, Direct, Insanity, Nuclear, Would Be

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.

Ears, Emotions, Eye, Fascination, Mind, Speech

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

Long, Judging, Cry, Judges

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