If someone is confronting our essential liberties, if someone is inflicting injuries and harm, by God I'll confront them!

I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

The spirit of envy can destroy; it can never build.

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

Each generation has to stand up for democracy. It can't take anything for granted and may have to fight fundamental battles anew.

People from my sort of background needed Grammar schools to compete with children from privileged homes like Shirley Williams and Anthony Wedgwood Benn.

It has been suggested by some people in this country that I and my government will be a "soft touch" in the [European] Community. In case such a rumour may have reached your ears, Mr Chancellor... it is only fair that I should advise you frankly to dismiss it (as my own colleagues did, long ago). We shall judge what British interests are and we shall be resolute in defending them.