Our children need strong families raising them with sturdy virtues, not to be smothered in the cold arms of the state.

A quick cure is a quack cure.

There is nothing inevitable about rising unemployment.

I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.

[M]ore than they wanted freedom, the Athenians wanted security. Yet they lost everything-security, comfort, and freedom. This was because they wanted not to give to society, but for society to give to them. The freedom they were seeking was freedom from responsibility. It is no wonder, then, that they ceased to be free. In the modern world, we should recall the Athenians' dire fate whenever we confront demands for increased state paternalism.

We introduced the Community Charge. I still call it that. I like the Poles - I never had any intention of taxing them.

I couldn't live without work. That's what makes me so sympathetic towards those people who are unemployed. I don't know how they live without working.