History is littered with the wars which everybody knew would never happen.

Lift the curtain and 'the State' reveals itself as a little group of fallible men in Whitehall, making guesses about the future, influenced by political prejudices and partisan prejudices, and working on projections drawn from the past by a staff of economists.

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

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

All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs.

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.

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.