We owe our children – the most vulnerable citizens in any society – a life free from violence and fear.

Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.

Only armchair politicians are immune from committing mistakes. Errors are inherent in political action.

I have never cared very much for personal prizes. A person does not become a freedom fighter in the hope of winning awards.

The United States of America is a threat to world peace.

We must appreciate that all over the world, right down the centuries, there have been great religions that have encouraged the idea of giving - of fighting poverty and of promoting the equality of human beings - whatever their background, whatever their political beliefs.

The question of education has nothing to do with the question of the vote. On numerous occasions it has been proved in history that people can enjoy the vote even if they have no education.