In the same period that the Americans have lived under one constitution our French friends notched up five. A Punch cartoon has a 19th century Englishman asking a librarian for a copy of the French constitution, only to be told: 'I am sorry Sir, we do not stock periodicals.'

There are too few rich and too few profits.

During my lifetime most of the problems the world has faced have come, in one fashion or another, from mainland Europe and the solution from outside it.

If you are guided by opinion polls, you are not practicing leadership -- you are practicing followership.

It's a funny old world.

History has taught us that freedom cannot long survive unless it is based on moral foundations. You can get the economics right, but in addition liberty must be cultivated as a moral quality.

Any leader has to have a certain amount of steel in them, so I am not that put out being called the Iron Lady.