Political success is a good deal pleasanter than political failure, but it too brings its problems.

Rooster, maybe well crows, but the eggs still bears the chicken.

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

Once a woman is made man's equal, she becomes his superior.

In the same period that the Americans have lived under one constitution our French friends notched up five. A Punch cartoon has a 19th century Englishman asking a librarian for a copy of the French constitution, only to be told: 'I am sorry Sir, we do not stock periodicals.'

A democratic Europe of nation states could be a force for liberty, enterprise and open trade. But, if creating a United States of Europe overrides these goals, the new Europe will be one of subsidy and protection

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.