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 supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils.

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

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

The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.

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.

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