How thin is the crust of order over the fires of human appetite and the lust for naked power.

A man who, beyond the age of 26, finds himself on a bus can count himself as a failure.

It had the effect of cementing the Anglo-American alliance. What's the good of having bases if when you want to use them you're not allowed to by the home country. It made America realise that Britain was her real and true friend, when they were hard up against it and wanted something, and that no one else in Europe was. They're a weak lot, some of them in Europe you know. Weak. Feeble.

In a system of free trade and free markets poor countries - and poor people - are not poor because others are rich. Indeed, if others became less rich the poor would in all probability become still poorer.

The desire to win is born in most of us. The will to win is a matter of training. The manner of winning is a matter of honour.

There's no such thing as society.

The larger the slice taken by government, the smaller the cake available for everyone.