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

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

My job is to stop Britain from going red.

Personal virtue is no substitute for political hard-headedness.

All the general propositions favouring freedom I had .. imbibed at my father's knee or acquired by candle-end reading of Burke and Hayek...

Whether at home or abroad, the task of statesman is to work with human nature warts and all, and to draw on instincts and even prejudices that can be turned to good purpose. It is never to try to recreate Mankind in a new image.

I'm standing up for the right of self-determination. I'm standing up for our territory. I'm standing up for our people. I'm standing up for international law. I'm standing up for all those territories - those small territories and peoples the world over - who, if someone doesn't stand up and say to an invader 'enough, stop', would be at risk.