There are always dangers about. Therefore you must always keep your defences strong.

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

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.

For the Christian there can be no social or political panaceas, no easy escapes from personal responsibility achieved by collectivising guilt or virtue. The true ends of temporal life lie beyond it, and, though the tyrannical State may diminish virtue, the benevolent State cannot procure it.

I was asked whether I was trying to restore Victorian values. I said straight out I was. And I am.

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

I don't think there will be a woman Prime Minister in my lifetime.