"There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families."

"I am not a fan of the welfare state. I think it is an expensive way of trying to do things which could be done better by voluntary effort."

"I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left."

"I am not afraid to be wrong. I am afraid of being right too soon."

"If my critics saw me walking over the Thames, they would say it was because I couldn’t swim."