(A unified) 'Europe' is the result of plans. It is, in fact, a classic utopian project, a monument to the vanity of intellectuals, a programme whose inevitable destiny is failure: only the scale of the final damage done is in doubt.

Naturally, it is with some temerity that the pupil speaks before the master, because you know more about the Common Market than anybody.

I don't know what I would do without Whitelaw. Everyone should have a Willy.

Defeat? I do not recognize the meaning of the word.

There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it.

I'll stay until I'm tired of it. So long as Britain needs me, I shall never be tired of it.

I had the patriotic conviction that, given great leadership of the sort I heard from Winston Churchill in the radio broadcasts to which we listened, there was almost nothing that the British people could not do.