We had to do what we had to do – Britain is great again.
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.
The application of collective guilt, running from one generation to another, is a dangerous doctrine which would leave few modern nations unscathed.
As a motive for terror, religion has more often than not required a good deal of lubrication by lucre.
The West as a whole in the early 1990s become obsessed with a ‘peace dividend’ that would be spent over and over again on any number of soft-hearted and sometimes soft-headed causes. Politicians forget that the only real peace dividend is peace.
As the former dissident Vladimir Bukovsky one remarked – referring to the Russian proverb to the effect that you cannot make an omlette without breaking eggs – he had seen plenty of broken eggs, but had never tasted any omlette.
Unless we change our ways and our direction, our greatness as a nation will soon be a footnote in the history books, a distant memory of an offshore island, lost in the mist of time like Camelot, remembered kindly for its noble past.
Remember, George, this is no time to go wobbly.
There are no personal sympathies in politics.
I shan’t be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.
We have become a grandmother.
Whether at home or abroad, the task of statesman is to work with human nature warts and all, and to draw on instincts and even prejudices that can be turned to good purpose. It is never to try to recreate Mankind in a new image.
Bribing regimes to comply with requirements which they should have acknowledged in the first place is not a process that appeals to me.