One hopes to achieve the zero option, but in the absence of that we must achieve balanced numbers.

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It’s not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it’s a day you’ve had everything to do and you’ve done it.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families

must be allowed to return to his own country forthwith.

I don’t mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.

A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.

When people are free to choose, they choose freedom

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

A well ordered society would be one where the State only had a negative action, comparable to that of a rudder: a light pressure at the right moment to counteract the first suggestion of any...

old, frail and sick.

Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends.

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions – he had money too

[But even some leading politicians of the Right have had doubts:] Nothing is more insidious than a fashionable consensus, … Surely there is something logically suspect about a solution which is correct whatever the problem.

If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.

I’m not quite sure of his place in history. History will determine that.

Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.

Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.