43 Quotes by Michael Foot

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

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

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

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

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

He's passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever.

Socialism without public ownership is nothing but a fantastic apology

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.

You can have a wages policy imposed by mass unemployment.