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

In the end, the Labour party could cease to represent labour. Stranger historic ironies have happened than that.

Of course I am very proud of being a Tory. Yes, in my head and in my heart I regard myself as a Tory. As I have said, I was born that way; I believe it is congenital. I am unable to change it. That is how I see the world... [The EEC] is the most un-Tory thing that can be conceived.

Politicians who complain about the media are like sailors who complain about the sea.

It is no accident that wherever the State ha taken economic decision away from the citizen, it has deprived him of his other liberties as well.

We must be mad, literally mad, as a nation to be permitting the annual inflow of some 50,000 dependents, who are for the most part the material of the future growth of the immigrant-descended population. It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre.

The life of nations no less than that of men is lived largely in the imagination.