Personal virtue is no substitute for political hard-headedness.
I am not immortal, but I’ve got a lot left in me yet.
I want a capital-earning democracy. Every man and woman a capitalist. Housing is the start. If you’re a man or woman of property, you’ve got something. So every man a capitalist, and every man a man of property.
I had the patriotic conviction that, given great leadership of the sort I heard from Winston Churchill in the radio broadcasts to which we listened, there was almost nothing that the British people could not do.
I think perhaps we manage our revolutions much more quietly in this country.
Let us, then, draw together in the name, not of jingoism, but of justice.
There is no such thing as society.
I am not hard – I’m frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded.
In the Conservative Party we have no truck with outmoded Marxist doctrine about class warfare. For us it is not who you are, who your family is or where you come from that matters, but what you are and what you can do for your country that counts.
We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain, only to see them re-imposed at a European level with a European super-state exercising a new dominance from Brussels.
We had to do what we had to do – Britain is great again.
Hope is no basis for a defense policy.
No great goal was ever easily achieved.
Once a woman is made man’s equal, she becomes his superior.
If we open our hearts to God, He has promised to work within us.
No generation has a free hold on this earth. All we have is a life tenancy-with a full repairing lease.
The Government wants a peaceful settlement. But we totally reject a peaceful sell-out.
I don’t know what I would do without Whitelaw. Everyone should have a Willy.
People are really rather afraid that this country might be rather swamped by people with a different culture.
There’s no such thing as entitlement, unless someone has first met an obligation.