There are too many people who imagine that there is something sophisticated about always believing the best of those who hate your country, and the worst of those who defend it.
Citizenship should be based on those who have a close and real relationship with this country and its inhabitants.
I will not change just to court popularity.
Had I faltered we would have neither the success nor the international reputation we have. Yet when a woman is strong she is strident. If a man is strong, he’s a good guy.
Marxists get up early to further their cause. We must get up even earlier to defend our freedom.
A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
If you want to cut your own throat, don’t come to me for a bandage.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
We will stand on principle or we will not stand at all.
Constitutions have to be written on hearts, not just paper.
I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.
The larger the slice taken by government, the smaller the cake available for everyone.
I am not a consensus politician. Im a conviction politician.
The price of freedom is still, and always will be, eternal vigilance.
For every idealistic peacemaker willing to renounce his self-defence in favour of a weapons-free world, there is at least one warmaker anxious to exploit the other’s good intentions.
Leadership is about having principles. A leader must have a vision and principles that will endure for all time and must always be true to these principles, applying them to changing circumstances.
Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy.
Do you think you would ever have heard of Christianity if the Apostles had gone out and said, ‘I believe in consensus?’
Socialists cry “Power to the people”, and raise the clenched fist as they say it. We all know what they really mean – power over people, power to the State.
History has taught us that freedom cannot long survive unless it is based on moral foundations. You can get the economics right, but in addition liberty must be cultivated as a moral quality.