The United States is contributing massively to the defence of Europe and we should be very grateful.

Peace is hard work and we must not allow people to forget it.

We want a society in which we are free to make choices, to make mistakes, to be generous and compassionate. That is what we mean by a moral society - not a society in which the State is responsible for everything, and no one is responsible for the State.

The desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom.

Whether at home or abroad, the task of statesman is to work with human nature warts and all, and to draw on instincts and even prejudices that can be turned to good purpose. It is never to try to recreate Mankind in a new image.

I believe we should continue to have a partnership of national states each retaining the right to protect its vital interests, but developing more effectively than at present the habit of working together.

Economics are the method; the object is to change the soul.