When people meet my wife they think better of me. They say: "With a wife like that, he can't be as bad as we thought".

Modern history is, as you all know, full of examples of great movements that disappeared because they had ceased to have any genuine reason for existence. The important thing is to have a faith to live by, and that goes for us in this party.

In all my life I have treated the press with marked contempt and remarkable success.

Thinking ahead, what really happens to us will depend on how many people we have who are of the great and sober and dynamic middle-class - the strivers, the planners, the ambitious ones.

We took the name 'Liberal' because we were determined to be a progressive party, willing to make experiments, in no sense reactionary but believing in the individual, his rights, and his enterprise, and rejecting the socialist panacea.

I did but see her passing by and yet I love her till I die.

A manager may be tough and practical, squeezing out, while the going is good, the last ounce of profit and dividend . . .