The most dangerous diminutions of freedom come from those who are convinced of their moral rectitude.

- Daniel Hannan

The 'EU in a Nutshell' is a miscellany of facts and anecdotes about the system which rules us. It's a book you can delve into in pursuit of a particu…

- Daniel Hannan

Political reporters no longer get to decide what's news. The days when a minister gave briefings to a dozen lobby correspondents, and thereby dictate…

- Daniel Hannan

Europe tends to favor stability over democracy, America democracy over stability.

- Daniel Hannan

Most British people are keen to remain in a European free trade zone; and most EU states are keen to keep us there, because we buy from them more tha…

- Daniel Hannan

You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt.

- Daniel Hannan

If you vote for candidates who think it's the role of the state to provide health care, don't complain when your hospitals are as badly run as everyt…

- Daniel Hannan

You cannot carry on forever squeezing the productive bit of the economy in order to fund an unprecedented engorgement of the unproductive bit.

- Daniel Hannan

The U.S. states that allow for citizens' initiatives tend to have fewer laws and lower taxes than the ones that don't. But the beauty of the system i…

- Daniel Hannan