The price of freedom is still, and always will be, eternal vigilance.

Each generation has to stand up for democracy. It can't take anything for granted and may have to fight fundamental battles anew.

When you stop a dictator, there are always risks. But there are greater risks in not stopping a dictator.

Yet the basic fact remains: every regulation represents a restriction of liberty, every regulation has a cost. That is why, like marriage (in the Prayer Book's words), regulation should not "be enterprised, nor taken in hand, unadvisedly, lightly, or wantonly"

A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

I'm not a good butcher but I've had to learn to carve the joint. People expect a new look.

We want a society in which we are free to make choices, to make mistakes, to be generous and compassionate. That is what we mean by a moral society - not a society in which the State is responsible for everything, and no one is responsible for the State.