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.

"I pay my taxes," says somebody, as if that were an act of virtue instead of one of compulsion.

Considering the company I keep in this place, that is hardly surprising.

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.

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

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.

Never take any notice of Anonymous letters, unless you get a few thousand on the same subject.