There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts.

The only reason to give a speech is to change the world.

Our deep spiritual confidence that this nation will survive the perils of today - which may well be with us for decades to come - compels us to invest in our nation's future, to consider and meet our obligations to our children and the numberless generations that will follow.

The problems with this world cannot possibly be solved by sceptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need people who can dream of things that never were.

My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.

Moral courage is more a rare commodity than bravery in a battle or great intelligence.

We in this country, in this generation, are, by destiny rather than choice, the watchmen on the walls of world freedom.