When all the objectives of government include the achievement of equality - other than equality before the law - that government poses a threat to liberty.

Well, there's a lot to react against![in response to the accusation that she was a reactionary]

We speak of peace, yes, but whose peace? Poland's? Bulgaria's? The peace of the grave?

For Dicey, writing in 1885, and for me reading him some seventy years later, the rule of law still had a very English, or at least Anglo-Saxon, feel to it. It was later, through Hayek's masterpieces "The Constitution of Liberty" and "Law, Legislation and Liberty" that I really came to think this principle as having wider application.

Isn't a policy of conventional weapons, with the terrible bombs raining down, with the missiles, with the aircraft, with the submarines, with the torpedoes, with the tanks, with chemical weapons - isn't that based on the possibility of threat?

When I look at him [Edward Heath] and he looks at me, I don't feel that it is a man looking at a woman. More like a woman being looked at by another woman.

Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.