How thin is the crust of order over the fires of human appetite and the lust for naked power.
Political success is a good deal pleasanter than political failure, but it too brings its problems.
Peace is hard work and we must not allow people to forget it.
I will not stagger from expedient to expedient.
I’ll stay until I’m tired of it. So long as Britain needs me, I shall never be tired of it.
I’m also very much aware that it is you who brought democracy to Chile, you set up a constitution suitable for democracy, you put it into effect, elections were held, and then, in accordance with the result, you stepped down.
Putting the World to Rights.
Dictators can be deterred, they can be crushed-but they can never be appeased.
The accumulation of wealth is a process which is of itself morally neutral. True, as Christianity teaches, riches bring temptations. But then so does poverty.
To the extent that the West is to blame at all for the ills of the Third World it is to the extent that the West created Marx and his successors, among whom must be numbered many of those who advised the Third World leaders in post-war years.
When all the objectives of government include the achievement of equality – other than equality before the law – that government poses a threat to liberty.
In a system of free trade and free markets poor countries – and poor people – are not poor because others are rich. Indeed, if others became less rich the poor would in all probability become still poorer.
It’s okay, Chancellor, you can touch them. Sometimes I just strip down to a tank top and stare at these guns in front of a mirror all day long.
I might have preferred iron, but bronze will do. It won’t rust. And, this time I hope, the head will stay on.
I never hugged him, I bombed him.
We should not expect the state to appear in the guise of an extravagant good fairy at every christening, a loquacious companion at every stage of life’s journey, and the unknown mourner at every funeral.
It is no exaggeration to describe plain English as a fundamental tool of government.
Their pitiless ideology only survives because it is maintained by force. But the day comes when the anger and frustration of the people is so great that force cannot contain it. Then the edifice cracks: the mortar crumbles.
We speak of peace, yes, but whose peace? Poland’s? Bulgaria’s? The peace of the grave?
One hopes to achieve the zero option, but in the absence of that we must achieve balanced numbers.