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Top 25 Michael Foot Quotes (2024 Update)

Michael Foot Quote: “All is fair in love and war and Parliamentary procedure.”

1. “All is fair in love and war and Parliamentary procedure.”

— Michael Foot

Michael Foot Quote: “Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power.”

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

— Michael Foot

Michael Foot Quote: “Socialism without public ownership is nothing but a fantastic apology.”

3. “Socialism without public ownership is nothing but a fantastic apology.”

— Michael Foot

Michael Foot Quote: “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.”

4. “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

Michael Foot Quote: “He’s passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever.”

5. “He’s passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever.”

— Michael Foot

Michael Foot Quote: “People must learn more and more that the strength of this country is the democratic power of the trade union movement.”

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

— Michael Foot

Michael Foot Quote: “Most liberties have been won by people who broke the law.”

7. “Most liberties have been won by people who broke the law.”

— Michael Foot

Michael Foot Quote: “Politicians live in little worlds of their own and imagine they are the universe.”

8. “Politicians live in little worlds of their own and imagine they are the universe.”

— Michael Foot

Michael Foot Quote: “You can have a wages policy imposed by mass unemployment.”

9. “You can have a wages policy imposed by mass unemployment.”

— Michael Foot

Michael Foot Quote: “The only man I knew who could make a curse sound like a caress.”

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

— Michael Foot

Michael Foot Quote: “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?”

11. “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

Michael Foot Quote: “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.”

12. “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

Michael Foot Quote: “Think of it! A second chamber selected by the Whips. A seraglio of eunuchs.”

13. “Think of it! A second chamber selected by the Whips. A seraglio of eunuchs.”

— Michael Foot

Michael Foot Quote: “Of course my father was a great influence on me. He taught me how to read.”

14. “Of course my father was a great influence on me. He taught me how to read.”

— Michael Foot

Michael Foot Quote: “A Royal Commission is a broody hen sitting on a china egg.”

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

— Michael Foot

Michael Foot Quote: “People can say what they want in the Labour Party.”

16. “People can say what they want in the Labour Party.”

— Michael Foot

Michael Foot Quote: “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.”

17. “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

Michael Foot Quote: “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.”

18. “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

Michael Foot Quote: “How long will it be before the cry goes up: Let’s kill all the judges?”

19. “How long will it be before the cry goes up: Let’s kill all the judges?”

— Michael Foot

Michael Foot Quote: “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.”

20. “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

Michael Foot Quote: “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.”

21. “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

Michael Foot Quote: “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.”

22. “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

Michael Foot Quote: “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.”

23. “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

Michael Foot Quote: “There is nothing wrong with being a Marxist. Their point of view is essential to a democratic debate.”

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

— Michael Foot

Michael Foot Quote: “I have never been in favour of expelling people from the Labour Party.”

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

— Michael Foot

Michael Foot Quote: “I certainly think that a Labour Government will have to have effective powers to control the outflow of capital.”

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

— Michael Foot

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