The mission of this government is much more than the promotion of economic progress. It is to renew the spirit and solidarity of the nation.

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

I want to get totally rid of class distinction. As someone put it one of the papers this morning: Marks and Spencer have triumphed over Karl Marx and Engels.

Hope is no basis for a defense policy.

Freedom will destroy itself if it is not exercised within some sort of moral framework, some body of shared beliefs, some spiritual heritage transmitted through the Church, the family, and the school.

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

I would just like to remember some words of St. Francis of Assisi which I think are really just particularly apt at the moment. 'Where there is discord, may we bring harmony. Where there is error, may we bring truth. Where there is doubt, may we bring faith. And where there is despair, may we bring hope.