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

Dictators can be deterred, they can be crushed - but they can never be appeased.

Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas.

If one generation is expected to carry an excessive burden on behalf of another, it will seek by every means to avoid it. It will either demand that past promises are broken, or it will not work, or it will not pay taxes, or the most talented people will leave. Socialist governments which have tried to tax 'till the pips squeak' have ample experience of that.

Just rejoice at the news and congratulate our armed forces and the Marines. Rejoice!

Bribing regimes to comply with requirements which they should have acknowledged in the first place is not a process that appeals to me.

[On Ronald Reagan:] Poor dear, there's nothing between his ears.