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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.

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.

Paisley has been and remains a greater threat to the Union than the Foreign Office and the Provisional IRA rolled into one.

A little nonsense now and then is not a bad thing – where would we politicians be if we were not allowed to talk it sometimes.

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.

Lift the curtain and ‘the State’ reveals itself as a little group of fallible men in Whitehall, making guesses about the future, influenced by political prejudices and partisan prejudices, and working on projections drawn from the past by a staff of economists.

It depends on how you define the word “racialist.” If you mean being conscious of the differences between men and nations, and from that, races, then we are all racialists. However, if you mean a man who despises a human being because he belongs to another race, or a man who believes that one race is inherently superior to another, then the answer is emphatically “No”.

It so happens that I never talk about race. I do not know what race is.

I am the last person whom it would be reasonable to expect to leave the Conservative Party.

I should like to have been killed in the war.

The happiest and most glorious hours of my life with books have been with German books.

Of all political sacred-cows, education is the most sacred and the most cow-like.

If I cannot understand my friend’s silence, I will never get to understand his words.

I have set and always will set my face like flint against making any difference between one citizen of this country and another on the grounds of his origin.

The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.

You have to give the electorate a tune they can whistle.

Have you ever wondered, perhaps, why opinions which the majority of people quite naturally hold are, if anyone dares express them publicly, denounced as ‘controversial, ‘extremist’, ‘explosive’, ‘disgraceful’, and overwhelmed with a violence and venom quite unknown to debate on mere political issues? It is because the whole power of the aggressor depends upon preventing people from seeing what is happening and from saying what they see.

People are disposed to mistake predicting troubles for causing troubles and even for desiring troubles.

The life of nations no less than that of men is lived largely in the imagination.

The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils.

Values exist in a transcendental realm, beyond space and time. They can neither be fought for, nor destroyed.

We must be mad, literally mad, as a nation to be permitting the annual inflow of some 50,000 dependents, who are for the most part the material of the future growth of the immigrant-descended population. It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre.

In the end, the Labour party could cease to represent labour. Stranger historic ironies have happened than that.

I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.

I do not keep a diary. Never have. To write a diary every day is like returning to one’s own vomit.

When I repress my emotion my stomach keeps score.

Politicians who complain about the media are like sailors who complain about the sea.

A single currency means a single government, and that single government would be the government whose policies determined every aspect of economic life.

History is littered with wars which everybody knew would never happen.

No battle is worth fighting except the last one.

All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs.

I hope those who shouted “Fascist” and “Nazi” are aware that before they were born I was fighting against Fascism and Nazism.

Independence, the freedom of a self-governing nation, is in my estimation the highest political good, for which any disadvantage, if need be, and any sacrifice are a cheap price.

If my ship sails from sight, it doesn’t mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.