Freedom is meaningless if people cannot put food in their stomachs, if they can have no shelter, if illiteracy and disease continue to dog them.
Our goal is to make finance the servant, not the master, of the real economy.
Deficits must be cut, yes, but the rush to austerity risks undermining the fragile global recovery.
On top of that, we have a healthy and stable economy and an end to the boom and bust that characterised the Tory years.
The question is not whether Scotland can survive as a separate state. Of course it could.
The economic times we are facing. . . are arguably the worst they've been in 60 years. And I think it's going to be more profound and long-lasting than people thought.
We can't be in the business of carting fresh air around the country.
But it remains the case that you know what is wrong with a lot more confidence than you know what is right.
First love, with its frantic haughty imagination, swings its object clear of the everyday, over the rut of living, making him all looks, silences, gestures, attitudes, a burning phrase with no context.
What matters is where you want to go. Focus in the right direction!
As long as there's a place for sundials and gardening and beautiful things, there's a place for the harpsichord. I completely reject the idea that harpsichord is old. And I reject the idea that something old is therefore not good or not popular. Lots of things are old. Lots of traditions are old - cooking, art. I like it because it's beautiful.