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He's passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever.
Michael Foot
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Michael Foot
Age: 96 †
Born: 1913
Born: July 23
Died: 2010
Died: March 3
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Former Leader Of The Labour Party
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Plymouth (parish)
Michael Mackintosh Foot
Rt. Hon. Michael Mackintosh Foot
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Most liberties have been won by people who broke the law.
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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.
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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?
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There are judges who stretch the law... to suit reactionary attitudes.
Michael Foot
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
People can say what they want in the Labour Party.
Michael Foot
All is fair in love and war and Parliamentary procedure.
Michael Foot
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
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
I have never been in favour of expelling people from the Labour Party.
Michael Foot
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
How long will it be before the cry goes up: Let's kill all the judges?
Michael Foot
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
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
Men of power have no time to read yet the men who do not read are unfit for power.
Michael Foot
The only man I knew who could make a curse sound like a caress.
Michael Foot
Think of it! A second chamber selected by the Whips. A seraglio of eunuchs.
Michael Foot
Of course my father was a great influence on me. He taught me how to read.
Michael Foot
You can have a wages policy imposed by mass unemployment.
Michael Foot
People must learn more and more that the strength of this country is the democratic power of the trade union movement.
Michael Foot
