You can’t lead from the crowd.
I believe our way of life is infinitely superior for every human being than any which the Communist creed can offer.
We are very fortunate to have someone else’s weapons stationed on our soil, to fight those targeted on us.
If a woman like Eva Peron with no ideals can get that far, think how far I can go with the ideals that I have.
I love his music because he was my generation. But then again, Elvis is everyone’s generation, and he always will be.
I am not a compromiser on fundamentals.
Obsolete weapons do not deter.
I’m not a good butcher but I’ve had to learn to carve the joint. People expect a new look.
I have made it quite clear that a unified Ireland was one solution that is out. A second solution was a confederation of two states. That is out. A third solution was joint authority. That is out-that is a derogation of sovereignty.
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.
Hope is no basis for a defense policy.