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

What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner 'I stand for consensus'?

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

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

I must be absolutely clear about this. Britain cannot accept the present situation on the Budget. It is demonstrably unjust. It is politically indefensible: I cannot play Sister Bountiful to the Community while my own electorate are being asked to forego improvements in the fields of health, education, welfare and the rest.

I had the patriotic conviction that, given great leadership of the sort I heard from Winston Churchill in the radio broadcasts to which we listened, there was almost nothing that the British people could not do.

We have been ruled by men who live by illusions ... the illusion that there is some other way of creating wealth than hard work and satisfying your customers.