Do you think you would ever have heard of Christianity if the Apostles had gone out and said, ‘I believe in consensus?’

Socialists don't like ordinary people choosing, for they might not choose Socialism.

What we should grasp, however, from the lessons of European history is that, first, there is nothing necessarily benevolent about programmes of European integration; second, the desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom; and third, European unity has been tried before, and the outcome was far from happy.

Well, there's a lot to react against![in response to the accusation that she was a reactionary]

Europe is... a monument to the vanity of individuals, a programme whose inevitable destiny is failure.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

My belief in free competitive economic enterprise does not rest solely or even mainly on arguments of economic efficiency, though, heaven knows, these are cogent enough. It rests essentially on the view that the free market is the only safe way of ensuring that productive effort is directed towards supplying what individuals actually want, and in a way which secures the dignity and independence of the worker.