The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils.

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.

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

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

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.

All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs.

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.