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

Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

We went back on a very similar manifesto to things I believe in. The difference is that after eighteen months to two years he did the biggest U-turn on policy of all time and started to go the wrong way. In the end, that cost us the next election.

As the former dissident Vladimir Bukovsky once remarked – referring to the Russian proverb to the effect that you cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs – he had seen plenty of broken eggs, but never tasted any omelette.

Once a woman is made man's equal, she becomes his superior.

A man who, beyond the age of 26, finds himself on a bus can count himself as a failure.

While the Soviet Union has imposed its rule on its neighbours and drawn an iron curtain between east and west, we in Great Britain have given freedom and independence to more than forty-eight countries whose populations now number more than a thousand million - a quarter of the world's total.