Personal virtue is no substitute for political hard-headedness.

Left-wing zealots have often been prepared to ride roughshod over due process and basic considerations of fairness when they think they can get away with it. For them the ends always seems to justify the means. That is precisely how their predecessors came to create the gulag.

Europe is... a monument to the vanity of individuals, a programme whose inevitable destiny is failure.

First you win the argument, then you win the vote.

We intend freedom and justice to conquer. Yes, we do have a creed and we wish others to share it. But it is not part of our policy to impose our beliefs by force or threat of force.

Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.

Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money.