As a motive for terror, religion has more often than not required a good deal of lubrication by lucre.
When you hold back the successful, you penalize those who need help.
The virtues prized in free countries are honesty, self-discipline, a sense of responsibility to one's family, a sense of loyalty to one's employer and staff, and a pride in the quality of one's work. And these virtues only flourish in a climate of freedom.
The government has no money of its own. It's all your money.
We will stand on principle or we will not stand at all.
I came to office with one deliberate intent: to change Britain from a dependent to a self-reliant society - from a give-it-to-me, to a do-it-yourself nation. A get-up-and-go, instead of a sit-back-and-wait-for-it Britain.