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

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

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

People are disposed to mistake predicting troubles for causing troubles and even for desiring troubles.

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.

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.

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.