Oh, I have lots of human weaknesses, who hasn't?

Labour just wants power at any price and they'll say anything to get it. Labour's real prescription for Britain is the disease half the world is struggling to cure.

Once the law and its moral basis is humbled, all else that is valuable in a civilised society will vanish.

The free enterprise economy which underlies our prosperity and underpins our freedoms can survive only in a society devoted to personal liberties under just laws.

I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job.

To set the record straight - once again - I have never minimised the importance of society, only contested the assumption that society means the State rather than other people.

Far better to command respect for doing the right thing long-term than to pursue short-term popularity.

Without more jobs, the future's bleak.

I don't like strident women.

When [nationalised industry] pay claims are made, they are sometimes presented as claims against Governments. But they are really claims which can only be paid for by fellow workers, housewives and consumers generally.

The whole history of negotiation with the Soviet Union teaches us that if you do something they want without insisting on something in return, the Soviets do not regard it as a kindness to be reciprocated, but as a weakness to be exploited.

During my lifetime most of the problems the world has faced have come, in one fashion or other, from mainland Europe, and the solutions from outside it.

Dec 31st, 1978: Where shall we be in 1984? With the Big Brother State of Socialism providing everything on condition that we surrender all that makes life worth living? Or a Conservative Government dedicated to serving the liberty, law, dignity and institutions of a free people?

Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.

The old saying has it that the first victim of war is truth. But it is more accurate to say that the first victim of totalitarianism is truth. And truth is what Communists have always feared the most.

You cannot build a great nation or brotherhood of man by spreading envy or hatred.

Socialism has only one remedy for anything - spend more of the peoples money and raise higher taxes.

At one end of the spectrum are terrorist gangs within our borders, and terrorist states which finance and arm them. At the other are the Hard Left operating inside our system, conspiring to use union power and the apparatus of local government to break, defy and subvert the law.

Socialists claim that all they want is to re-distribute income and wealth from the rich to the poor. This is not the effect of high taxation. The effect of high taxation is to switch income and wealth from the people to the State.

It is not the centre ground but the common ground - the shared instincts and traditions of the British people - on which we should pitch our tents. That ground is solid - whereas the centre ground is as slippery as the spin doctors who have colonised it.