Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.

I will not stagger from expedient to expedient.

You want to keep more of the money you earn? I'm afraid that's very selfish. We shall want to tax that away. You want to own shares in your firm? We can't have that. The state has to own your firm. You want to choose where to send your children to school? That's very divisive. You'll send your child where we tell you.

No Western nation has to build a wall round itself to keep its people in.

We speak of peace, yes, but whose peace? Poland's? Bulgaria's? The peace of the grave?

Every Conservative desires peace. The threat to peace comes from Communism which has powerful forces ready to attack anywhere. Communism waits for weakness, it leaves strength alone. Britain must therefore be strong, strong in her arms, strong in her faith, strong in her own way of life.

There is no such thing as society.