Europe is... a monument to the vanity of individuals, a programme whose inevitable destiny is failure.

If a Tory does not believe that private property is one of the main bulwarks of individual freedom, then he had better become a socialist and have done with it.

Our first duty to liberty is to keep our own. But it is also our duty - as Europeans - to keep alive in the Eastern as well as the Western half of our continent those ideas of human dignity which Europe gave to the world. Let us therefore resolve to keep the lamps of freedom burning bright so that all who look to the West from the shadows of the East need not doubt that we remain true to those human and spiritual values that lie at the heart of European civilization.

You turn if you want to. The Lady's not for turning.

We intend freedom and justice to conquer. Yes, we do have a creed and we wish others to share it. But it is not part of our policy to impose our beliefs by force or threat of force.

I don't know what I would do without Whitelaw. Everyone should have a Willy.

If you want to get something said in the politics tell a man. If you want to get something done in the politics tell a woman