Personal abuse is no substitute for policy. It signals panic.

All the general propositions favouring freedom I had .. imbibed at my father's knee or acquired by candle-end reading of Burke and Hayek...

I couldn't live without work. That's what makes me so sympathetic towards those people who are unemployed. I don't know how they live without working.

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.

The secret of happiness is to live within your income and pay your bills on time.

Dictators can be deterred, they can be crushed - but they can never be appeased.

Do you think you would ever have heard of Christianity if the Apostles had gone out and said, ‘I believe in consensus?’