The true use of history, whether civil or military, is not to make man clever for the next time, it is to make him wise forever.

I will never stand again for the leadership of the Conservative Party.

I am happy to debate the past with the Prime Minister... I have a big dossier on his past, and I did not even have to sex it up.

Tony Blair is already secretly grinning at the prospect of his third victory. You don't have to settle for that.

History is what we read, write and think about the past.

So long as the international community consists of sovereign states, war between them remains a possibility, of which all governments have to take reasonable account.

The important thing when you are going to do something brave is to have someone on hand to witness it.