If I Cannot Understand My Friend's Silence,

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.

Of Course I Am Very Proud Of Being A Tory. Yes, In My Head And In My Heart I Regard Myself As A Tory. As I Have Said, I Was Born That Way; I Believe It Is Congenital. I Am Unable To Change It. That Is How I See The World... [the Eec] Is The Most Un-tory Thing That Can Be Conceived.

History Is Littered With The Wars Which Everybody Knew Would Never Happen.

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, Of That Which Is Prescriptive.

If In The Words Which The Secretary Of State Has Just Used, The Use Of A Nuclear Weapon Is To Be Avoided 'at All Costs'. What Is The Point Of Having One?