Michael Foot
Michael Foot
Michael Mackintosh Foot PC FRSLwas 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 Hitler, Guilty Men, under a pseudonym...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth23 July 1913
imagination
She has no imagination and that means no compassion.
curse knew man sound
He was the only man I knew who could make a curse sound like a caress.
strong party want
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.
views essentials debate
There is nothing wrong with being a Marxist. Their point of view is essential to a democratic debate
party sight sound
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.
law people liberty
Most liberties have been won by people who broke the law
leader political rising
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.
eggs hens royal
A Royal Commission is a broody hen sitting on a china egg.
thinking government labour
I certainly think that a Labour Government will have to have effective powers to control the outflow of capital.
eye mind ears
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.
judging long cry
How long will it be before the cry goes up: Let's kill all the judges?
tattoo war wonderful-love
All is fair in love and war and Parliamentary procedure.
party people want
People can say what they want in the Labour Party.
simple favourite gladstone
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.