No generation has a free hold on this earth. All we have is a life tenancy-with a full repairing lease.

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"

I must be absolutely clear about this. Britain cannot accept the present situation on the Budget. It is demonstrably unjust. It is politically indefensible: I cannot play Sister Bountiful to the Community while my own electorate are being asked to forego improvements in the fields of health, education, welfare and the rest.

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

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

Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people's money. It's quite a characteristic of them.

Both the President and Mr Gorbachev have said that they want to see a world without nuclear weapons. I cannot see a world without nuclear weapons. Let me be practical about it. The knowledge is there to make them. So do not go too hard for that pie in the sky because, while everyone would like to see it, I do not believe it is going to come about.