It is dangerous to play politics with the Budget.

Charity is a cold grey loveless thing. If a rich man wants to help the poor, he should pay his taxes gladly, not dole out money at a whim.

No social system will bring us happiness, health and prosperity unless it is inspired by something greater than materialism.

When we are returned to power we want to put in the statute book an act which will make our people citizens of the world before they are citizens of this country.

Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.

If you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political party, you're half-way to a dictatorship.

I believe that the foundation of democratic liberty is a willingness to believe that other people may perhaps be wiser than oneself.

You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt

A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women's beds in a week. A Labour minister gets it in the neck if he looks at his neighbour's wife over the garden fence.

We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty. We are deliberately putting a world order before our loyalty to our own country.

Winston Churchill - fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.

Each day we hold things in our heart, sometimes these things are heavy. Carrying God's grace with us each and every day lightens life's load.

Everyone has a worldview, and everyone is positive theirs is the correct one. I can tell you without a doubt your wrong.

All we had was her room, her stories, and the quiet that settled in as we tried in vain to spread ourselves out and fill the space she'd left behind.

When I served as US Ambassador to NATO in the 1970s, the center of gravity in Europe was France and Germany.

I come to the table from a conservative or libertarian point of view, and I admit that. I'm a commentator. I'm not a journalist or anything else.

Commending a right thing is a cheap substitute for doing it, with which we are too apt to satisfy ourselves.

A dull ax never loves grindstones.

See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.

Dead bodies are such trouble,” Evie said with a little sigh, and Mabel had to turn her head away so as not to laugh.

It's hard, sometimes, when nothing's stopping you, to know what's stopping you.