Hope Is The Fuel Of Progress And

The Thought That My Mother Would Suddenly Be A Foreigner Would Upset Me Very Much.

If Democracy Is Destroyed In Britain, It Will Be Not The Communists, Trotskyists Or Subversives But This House Which Threw It Away. The Rights That Are Entrusted To Us Are Not For Us To Give Away. Even If I Agree With Everything That Is Proposed, I Cannot Hand Away Powers Lent To Me For Five Years By The People Of Chesterfield. I Just Could Not Do It. It Would Be Theft Of Public Rights.

A Faith Is Something You Die For; A Doctrine Is Something You Kill For; There Is All The Difference In The World.

When Somebody Comes Up With A Progressive Idea, To Begin With, You're Mad, Bonkers. Then If You Go On, You're Dangerous. Then There's A Pause. Then You Can't Find Anyone Who Can Say They Thought Of It In The First Place. That's How Progress Is Made. This Is Why I Do Believe In The Vote. In The End, All These People Who've Been Tempted To The Right Realise The Warning Lights In Their Constituency Are Brighter Than The Bright Lights From No. 10 Offering Them Things.

It's Lovely To Be Old. I've Got Age, Experience And Zero Personal Ambition. No Body Could Corrupt Me By Anything: Possibly A Job In The Government, A Peerage, A Quango, I Don't Want Any Of It.