There might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.

I have never knowingly made a non-controversial speech in my life.

From my experience let me say this: in today's world it is no bad thing for a politician to have had the benefit of a scientific background. And not only politicians. Those who work in industry, in commerce, in investment. Indeed, so important has it become that I believe we are right to make science a compulsory subject for all schoolchildren.

America, my friends, is the only country in the world actually founded on liberty - the only one. People went to America to be free.

Every Conservative desires peace. The threat to peace comes from Communism which has powerful forces ready to attack anywhere. Communism waits for weakness, it leaves strength alone. Britain must therefore be strong, strong in her arms, strong in her faith, strong in her own way of life.

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.

When hecklers stand up, I get a mental jump for joy. It gives me something to get my teeth into - and the audiences love it.