The habit of ubiquitous interventionism, combining pinprick strikes by precision weapons with pious invocations of high principle, would lead us into endless difficulties. Interventions must be limited in number and overwhelming in their impact.
Israel must never be expected to jeopardize her security: if she was ever foolish enough to do so, and then suffered for it, the backlash against both honest brokers and Palestinians would be immense – ‘land for peace’ must also bring peace.
I am an undiluted admirer of American values and the American dream and I believe they will continue to inspire not just the people of the United States but millions across the face of the globe.
America, my friends, is the only country in the world actually founded on liberty – the only one. People went to America to be free.
I am an ally of the United States. We believe the same things, we believe passionately in the same battle of ideas, we will defend them to the hilt. Never try to separate me from them.
Object to merit and distinction, and you’re setting your face against quality, independence, originality, genius against all the richness and variety of life. When you hold back the successful, you penalize those who need help.
Good Conservatives always pay their bills. And on time. Not like the Socialists who run up other people’s bills.
The spirit of envy can destroy; it can never build.
The feminists hate me, don’t they? And I don’t blame them. For I hate feminism. It is poison.
We had to fight the enemy without in the Falklands. We always have to be aware of the enemy within, which is much more difficult to fight and more dangerous to liberty.
There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.
The desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom.
It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.
My job is to stop Britain from going red.
The desire to win is born in most of us. The will to win is a matter of training. The manner of winning is a matter of honour.
Ronald Reagan won the Cold War without firing a shot.
Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.
You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.
Let our children grow tall and some taller than others if they have it in them to do so.
I fight on. I fight to win.