You can't lead from the crowd.

To accuse me of being too inflexible is poppycock.

The Government wants a peaceful settlement. But we totally reject a peaceful sell-out.

The truths of the Judaic-Christian tradition, are infinitely precious, not only, as I believe, because they are true, but also because they provide the moral impulse which alone can lead to that peace, in the true meaning of the word, for which we all long. . . . There is little hope for democracy if the hearts of men and women in democratic societies cannot be touched by a call to something greater than themselves.

Those who imagine that a politician would make a better figurehead than a hereditary monarch might perhaps make the acquaintance of more politicians.

The real case against socialism is not its economic inefficiency, though on all sides there is evidence of that. Much more fundamental is its basic immorality.

Each generation has to stand up for democracy. It can't take anything for granted and may have to fight fundamental battles anew.