You will only succeed if you know that what you are doing is right and you know how to bring out the best in people.

We shall take whatever action is necessary to contain the growth of the money supply. The government, unlike so many of its predecessors, will face up to economic realities.

When you take into public ownership a profitable industry the profits soon disappear. The goose that laid the golden eggs goes broody. State geese are not great layers.

I am not immortal, but I've got a lot left in me yet.

There's no such thing as society.

Let us never forget this fundamental truth: The State has no source of money other than the money people themselves earn.

The fact that seasoned politicians can say such ridiculous things - and get away with it - illustrates the degree to which the new dogma... has swept through the left-of-centre governing classes.