Bribing regimes to comply with requirements which they should have acknowledged in the first place is not a process that appeals to me.

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

But the whole history of America is quite different from Europe. People went there to get away from the intolerance and constraints of life in Europe. They sought liberty and opportunity; and their strong sense of purpose has over two centuries, helped create a new unity and pride in being American.

The West as a whole in the early 1990s become obsessed with a 'peace dividend' that would be spent over and over again on any number of soft-hearted and sometimes soft-headed causes. Politicians forget that the only real peace dividend is peace.

There is no week, nor day, nor hour, when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their supreme confidence in themselves, and lose their roughness and spirit of defiance. Tyranny may always enter—there is no charm or bar against it.

The desire to win is born in most of us. The will to win is a matter of training. The manner of winning is a matter of honour.

Failure? The possibilities do not exist.