It will be years - not in my time - before a woman will become Prime Minister

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.

Yet the basic fact remains: every regulation represents a restriction of liberty, every regulation has a cost. That is why, like marriage (in the Prayer Book's words), regulation should not "be enterprised, nor taken in hand, unadvisedly, lightly, or wantonly"

Adam Smith's 'invisible hand' is not above sudden, disturbing, movements. Since its inception, capitalism has known slumps and recessions, bubble and froth; no one has yet dis-invented the business cycle, and probably no one will; and what Schumpeter famously called the 'gales of creative destruction' still roar mightily from time to time. To lament these things is ultimately to lament the bracing blast of freedom itself.

If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage.

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

It must be a conviction Government. As Prime Minister I could not waste time having internal arguments.