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"

This business of the working class is on its way out I think. After all, aren't I working class? I work jolly hard, I can tell you.

There are no personal sympathies in politics.

I shall fight on, I shall fight to win.

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

The messages on our banners in 1979 - freedom, opportunity, family, enterprise, ownership - are now inscribed on the banners in Leipzig, Warsaw, Budapest and even Moscow.

We have made too much of one or two people, and we think that they can win or lose elections for us. Don't be depressed if one particular person transgresses. It doesn't lose an election unless the Party loses faith in itself.