You don't win by just being against things, you only win by being for things and making your message perfectly clear.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

As a motive for terror, religion has more often than not required a good deal of lubrication by lucre.

A world without nuclear weapons may be a dream but you cannot base a sure defence on dreams. Without far greater trust and confidence between East and West than exists at present, a world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

There are dangers in consensus: it could be an attempt to satisfy people holding no particular views about anything. ... No great party can survive except on the basis of firm beliefs about what it wants to do.

It is no exaggeration to describe plain English as a fundamental tool of government.