There's no such thing as society.

If your only opportunity is to be equal then it is not opportunity.

I do not understand the unilateralists. If they hated nuclear weapons as much as I do they would want them down in the world as a whole. I am the true disarmer, I keep peace and freedom and justice with it.

My first guiding principle is this: willing and active co-operation between independent sovereign states. Europe will be stronger precisely because it has France as France, Spain as Spain, Britain as Britain, each with its own customs, traditions and identity. It would be folly to try to fit them into some sort of identikit European personality.

I applaud strong government, but not overweening government sustained by cronies, ciphers and a personality cult.

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.