Socialism's results have ranged between the merely shabby and the truly catastrophic - poverty, strife, oppression and, on the killing fields of communism, the deaths this century of perhaps 100 million people. Against that doctrine was set a contrary, conservative belief in a law-governed liberty. It was this view which triumphed with the crumbling of the Berlin Wall. Since then, the Left has sought rehabilitation by distancing itself from its past.

What happened in Russia in 1917 wasn't a revolution - it was a coup d'etat.

Fear is not the basis for foreign policy.

Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas.

If there is one instance in which a foreign policy I pursued met with unambiguous failure, it was my policy on German reunification.

The Third World is very much like the First World - just poorer: what works for the West will work for the rest as well.

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