I am the last person whom it would be reasonable to expect to leave the Conservative Party.

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.

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.

Lift the curtain and 'the State' reveals itself as a little group of fallible men in Whitehall, making guesses about the future, influenced by political prejudices and partisan prejudices, and working on projections drawn from the past by a staff of economists.

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

When I repress my emotion my stomach keeps score.

If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.