A little nonsense now and then is not a bad thing - where would we politicians be if we were not allowed to talk it sometimes.

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.

The life of nations no less than that of men is lived largely in the imagination.

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.

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

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.

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