Next to courage, willpower is the most important thing in politics.

Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down, and never sit down when you can lie down.

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.

As the CIA and KGB, like God and Satan, fight Miltonic battles across five continents.

If anti-Semitism is a variety of racism, it is a most peculiar variety, with many unique characteristics. In my view as a historian, it is so peculiar that it deserves to be placed in a quite different category. I would call it an intellectual disease, a disease of the mind, extremely infectious and massively destructive.

If we want foxes, to observe and delight in, we must have hunting.

John Major is what he is: a man from nowhere, going nowhere, heading for a well-merited obscurity as fast as his mediocre talents can carry him.