It is your tax which pays for public spending. The government have no money of their own. There is only taxpayers' money.

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

Life in a free society...is heaven on earth to life in a socialist society such as Russia.

There are forces more powerful and pervasive than the apparatus of war. You may chain a man, but you cannot chain his mind. You may enslave him, but you will not conquer his spirit. In every decade since the war Soviet leaders have been reminded that their pitiless ideology only survives because it is maintained by force. But the day will come when the anger and frustration of the people is so great that force cannot contain it. Then the edifice cracks; the mortar crumbles; one day, liberty will dawn on the other side of the wall.

Being powerful is a lot like being a woman: If you have to tell someone that you are, invariably, you are not.

It is one of the great weaknesses of reasonable men and women that they imagine that projects which fly in the face of commonsense are not serious or being seriously undertaken.

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