If in the words which the Secretary of State has just used, the use of a nuclear weapon is to be avoided 'at all costs'. what is the point of having one?

I have set and always will set my face like flint against making any difference between one citizen of this country and another on grounds of his origin.

You have to give the electorate a tune they can whistle.

Paisley has been and remains a greater threat to the Union than the Foreign Office and the Provisional IRA rolled into one.

I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.

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.

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.