I'm an intellectual Thatcherite, just as I was an intellectual Powellite, and I think it important that the Conservative party should be in good hand…

- Maurice Cowling

It seemed to me singularly ill-contrived for the British government to be going to war with Hitler when Hitler might have been about to attack the Ru…

- Maurice Cowling

Liberalism is essentially the belief that there can be a reconciliation of all difficulties and differences, and since there can't, it is a misleadin…

- Maurice Cowling

I've read The Satanic Verses and I thought it a nasty, sneering, free-thinking book... I can understand why the book is offensive and it didn't seem …

- Maurice Cowling

From Britain's point of view the 1939 war had been a liberal war which had been entered into in a condition of moral indignation without the resource…

- Maurice Cowling

If there is a class war - and there is - it is important that it should be handled with subtlety and skill. ... it is not freedom that Conservatives …

- Maurice Cowling