When we look at the astonishing material achievements of the West. we see these things as the result, not of compulsion or government action or the superior wisdom of a few, but of that system of competition and free enterprise, rewarding success and penalising failure, which enables every individual to participate by his private decisions in shaping the future of his society.

Values exist in a transcendental realm, beyond space and time. They can neither be fought for, nor destroyed.

A little nonsense now and then is not a bad thing - where would we politicians be if we were not allowed to talk it sometimes.

Independence, the freedom of a self-governing nation, is in my estimation the highest political good, for which any disadvantage, if need be, and any sacrifice are a cheap price.

Of all political sacred-cows, education is the most sacred and the most cow-like.

It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre. So insane are we that we actually permit unmarried persons to immigrate for the purpose of founding a family with spouses and fiancées whom they have never seen.

If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.