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.

Values exist in a transcendental realm, beyond space and time. They can neither be fought for, nor destroyed.

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

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

No battle is worth fighting except the last one.

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

When we look at the astonishing material achievements of the West. we see these things as the result, not of compulsion or government action or the superior wisdom of a few, but of that system of competition and free enterprise, rewarding success and penalising failure, which enables every individual to participate by his private decisions in shaping the future of his society.