I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.

We need a free economy not only for the renewed material prosperity it will bring, but because it is indispensable to individual freedom, human dignity and to a more just, more honest society.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.

Whether it is in the United States or in mainland Europe, written constitutions have one great weakness. That is that they contain the potential to have judges take decisions which should properly be made by democratically elected politicians.

...Conservatives have excellent credentials to speak about human rights. By our efforts, and with precious little help from self-styled liberals, we were largely responsible for securing liberty for a substantial share of the world's population and defending it for most of the rest.

There might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.

If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim.