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.

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

Their pitiless ideology only survives because it is maintained by force. But the day comes when the anger and frustration of the people is so great that force cannot contain it. Then the edifice cracks: the mortar crumbles.

I'm back... and you knew I was coming. On my way here I passed a cinema with the sign 'The Mummy Returns'.

The acid test of politics is not what you say at the hustings, but what you actually do in government.

I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.

I've got my teeth into him, and I'm not going to let go.