I had the patriotic conviction that, given great leadership of the sort I heard from Winston Churchill in the radio broadcasts to which we listened, there was almost nothing that the British people could not do.

Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.

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.

We must not fall into the mistake of thinking that it is America that trades with Taiwan or Europe that trades with Asia. The truth is that it is American companies that trade with Taiwanese companies.

It is your tax which pays for public spending. The government have no money of their own. There is only taxpayers' money.

The feminists hate me, don't they? And I don't blame them. For I hate feminism. It is poison.

There is nothing inevitable about rising unemployment.