We do not achieve happiness or salvation in isolation from each other but as members of society

[On Ronald Reagan:] Poor dear, there's nothing between his ears.

(Not) even the US can impose peace: it has to be genuinely accepted by both parties involved.

I am much nearer to creating one nation than Labour will ever be. Socialism is two nations. The privileged rulers, and everyone else. And it always gets to that. What I am desperately trying to do is create one nation with everyone being a man of property, or having the opportunity to be a man of property.

I have never knowingly made a non-controversial speech in my life.

Constitutions have to be written on hearts, not just paper.

Communist regimes were not some unfortunate aberration, some historical deviation from a socialist ideal. They were the ultimate expression, unconstrained by democratic and electoral pressures, of what socialism is all about. ... In short, the state [is] everything and the individual nothing.