Courage is the essential element in any great public man or woman.

There are no inevitabilities in history

Scanning the newspapers and absorbing with a mixture of incredulity and indignation the enormities they report, I conclude that what England lacks today is, quite simply, sense.

I very much wanted to be editor of the 'New Statesman!' But I never wanted to be prime minister, except maybe as a little boy.

The Second World War took place not so much because no one won the First, but because the Versailles Treaty did not acknowledge this truth.

If I see a door ajar, I push on it to see how far it will open, and if it opens wide I go through it.

I like that lady - Sarah Palin. She's great. I like the cut of her jib.