Object to merit and distinction, and you're setting your face against quality, independence, originality, genius against all the richness and variety….

Gentlemen, if we don't cut spending we will be bankrupt. Yes, the medicine is harsh, but the patient requires it in order to live. Should we withhold….

Whether manufactured by black, white, brown or yellow hands, a widget remains a widget – and it will be bought anywhere if the price and quality are ….

I call the Conservative Party now to a crusade. Not only the Conservative Party. I appeal to all those men and women of goodwill who do not want a Ma….

No great goal was ever easily achieved..

Human rights did not begin with the French Revolution...[they] really stem from a mixture of Judaism and Christianity...[we English] had 1688, our qu….

It's the Labour Government that have brought us record peacetime taxation. They've got the usual Socialist disease - they've run out of other people'….

We must not fall into the trap of projecting our own morality onto the Soviet leaders. They do not share our aspirations, they are not constrained by….

If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is a….

I pay tribute to John Major's achievement in persuading the other 11 Community Heads of Government that they could move ahead to a Social Chapter but….

I'm happy as a dog with two dicks.

I went to Oxford University - but I've never let that hold me back..

The accumulation of wealth is a process which is of itself morally neutral. True, as Christianity teaches, riches bring temptations. But then so does….

I'm not a good butcher but I've had to learn to carve the joint. People expect a new look..

In a system of free trade and free markets poor countries - and poor people - are not poor because others are rich. Indeed, if others became less ric….

I hate extremes of any kind. Communism [seeks] the domination of the state over the individual... All my life I have stood against banning Communism ….

I started out in life with two great advantages: No money and good parents..

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

You cannot make an omelet without breaking some balls.

Never flinch. Make up your own mind and do it..

I wouldn't be worth my salt if I weren't attracting some controversy and criticism. Everyone in the world who has done something in life has attracte….