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

When all the objectives of government include the achievement of equality - other than equality before the law - that government poses a threat to liberty.

Why do you climb philosophical hills? Because they are worth climbing . . . There are no hills to go down unless you start from the top.

Never flinch. Make up your own mind and do it.

Obsolete weapons do not deter.

No theory of government was ever given a fairer test or a more prolonged experiment in a democratic country than democratic socialism received in Britain. Yet it was a miserable failure in every respect... To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukemia with leeches.

We who are living in the west today are fortunate. Freedom has been bequeathed to us. We have not had to carve it out of nothing; we have not had to pay for it with our lives. But it would be a grave mistake to think that freedom requires nothing of us. Each of us has to earn freedom anew in order to possess it. We do so not just for our own sake, but for the sake of our children, so that they may build a better future that will sustain over the world the responsibilities and blessings of freedom.