There is a nonsense about intelligent women not being beautiful.

How thin is the crust of order over the fires of human appetite and the lust for naked power.

It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.

It is one of the great weaknesses of reasonable men and women that they imagine that projects which fly in the face of commonsense are not serious or being seriously undertaken.

A man may climb Everest for himself, but at the summit he plants his country's flag.

I'll stay until I'm tired of it. So long as Britain needs me, I shall never be tired of it.

Yet the basic fact remains: every regulation represents a restriction of liberty, every regulation has a cost. That is why, like marriage (in the Prayer Book's words), regulation should not "be enterprised, nor taken in hand, unadvisedly, lightly, or wantonly"