If one generation is expected to carry an excessive burden on behalf of another, it will seek by every means to avoid it. It will either demand that past promises are broken, or it will not work, or it will not pay taxes, or the most talented people will leave. Socialist governments which have tried to tax 'till the pips squeak' have ample experience of that.

Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people's money. It's quite a characteristic of them.

Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.

The real case against socialism is not its economic inefficiency, though on all sides there is evidence of that. Much more fundamental is its basic immorality.

Citizenship should be based on those who have a close and real relationship with this country and its inhabitants.

It seems like cloud cuckoo land. If anyone is suggesting that I would go to Parliament and suggest the abolition of the Pound Sterling - no! We have made it quite clear that we will not have a single currency imposed upon us.

As a motive for terror, religion has more often than not required a good deal of lubrication by lucre.