Of course you know him. Everyone knows a pear-shaped man.
It is no accident that wherever the State ha taken economic decision away from the citizen, it has deprived him of his other liberties as well.
If in the words which the Secretary of State has just used, the use of a nuclear weapon is to be avoided 'at all costs'. what is the point of having one?
It is the English, not their Government; for if they were not blind cowards, they would lynch Chamberlain and Halifax and all the other smarmy traitors.
No battle is worth fighting except the last one.
As so often, the ordinary rank and file of the electorate have seen a truth, an important fact, which has escaped so many more clever people the underlying value of that which is traditional, that which is prescriptive.
Of course I am very proud of being a Tory. Yes, in my head and in my heart I regard myself as a Tory. As I have said, I was born that way; I believe it is congenital. I am unable to change it. That is how I see the world. . . is the most un-Tory thing that can be conceived.
In these difficult times, when tough decisions are required, the differences between Labour and the Tories are becoming much clearer. One party believes in intervention to reduce social and economic costs and the other believes in market forces and letting things take their course.
An unemployed jester is nobody's fool.
You're going to make mistakes in life. It's what you do after the mistakes that counts.
The beginning of it starts at the end