I will not change just to court popularity.

My job is to stop Britain from going red.

There's no such thing as society.

Young people ought not to be idle, it is very bad for them.

Isn't a policy of conventional weapons, with the terrible bombs raining down, with the missiles, with the aircraft, with the submarines, with the torpedoes, with the tanks, with chemical weapons - isn't that based on the possibility of threat?

How very popular to say, 'spend more on this, expend more on that.' And of course, we all have our favorite causes; I know I do. But someone has to add up the figures. Every business has to do it, every housewife has to do it, [and] every government should do it.

Everything a politician promises at election time has to be paid for either by higher taxation or by borrowing.