If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

I believe in the acceptance of personal responsibility, freedom of choice, and the British Empire, which took freedom and the rule of law to countries which would never have known it otherwise.

You can present people with ideas they may come to believe in, and as a result of them they will act, if they have the opportunities. Presenting people with opportunities is part of what politics is about.

We very much hope that as we get growth that we can reduce the burden of taxation, that we can reduce income tax and increase the amount of genuine free enterprise and business enterprise... This is going... toward the restoration of the personal responsibility, the independence, with every man a property owner, every man a capitalist.

The acid test of politics is not what you say at the hustings, but what you actually do in government.

Everything a politician promises at election time has to be paid for either by higher taxation or by borrowing.