29 quotes
A nation is the sum of its memories, and when those memories are allowed to die, it is less of a nation.
The Abolition of Britain (1999)
Fear is good for us and helps us to escape from great dangers. Those who do not feel it are in permanent peril because they cannot see the risks that lie at their feet.
The Rage Against God (2010)
The Bible angers and frustrates those who believe that the pursuit of a perfect society justifies the quest for absolute power.
The Rage Against God (2010)
The Spitfire, symbol of British military heroism in the 'Good War', was always, at heart, a defensive weapon.
The Phoney Victory (2018)
A liberal will defend to the death your right to agree with her. Disagree with her, and she will call the police.
The Cameron Delusion (2010)
We cannot just give [our country] to complete strangers on an impulse because it makes us feel good about ourselves.
Frankly, I could carve a better opposition party out of a banana than the Tories.
Prince of Wales and Repulse both came to be sunk by Japanese aircraft on 10 December 1941 off the coast of Malaya.
The Phoney Victory (2018)
It is a fantasy to believe that you punish politicians by throwing them out of office. It is when they leave office that they start making the real money.
The funeral of Winston Churchill in 1965 turned out to be the burial of the British Empire. The funeral of Queen Elizabeth next week will probably be the obsequies of the United Kingdom.
Don't you dare call me optimistic. (It's a) grave insult.
To complain that a European Union official is a federalist, is like complaining that a bicycle has handlebars. That's what they are, that's what they do.
You cannot make freedom into a dogma. Freedoms conflict. You have to decide which freedoms you wish to protect against other freedoms.
We're not close. We're different people, we have different lives, we have entirely different pleasures, we live in different continents. If we weren't brothers we wouldn't know each other.
We made a hurried and shamefully disorganized exit from India, at a vast cost in Indian lives, leaving behind us two dangerous frontier conflicts that remain unresolved till today.
The Phoney Victory (2018)
If you want to wreck the country, get some grandiose people to sit on a panel. Make sure you don’t choose anyone who disagrees with your aim. Then write a pamphlet demanding the destruction of something good, and call it a 'report'.
A time traveller from Fifties Britain would probably die of shock within two hours of arriving in modernised Blairland — and be quite glad to do so. The fact that the restaurants are better just would not make up for the fact that almost everything else is worse.
Smoking and buggery can both kill you, by exposing you to diseases you would not otherwise get. If homosexual acts were as common as smoking we would have to bury the victims in mass graves because AIDS slays so much faster than cancer, heart disease or emphysema.
The Abolition of Britain (1999)
The main enemy of conservatism in Britain is the Conservative Party.
The Cameron Delusion (2010)
"Abolish the Lords and replace them with a House of Wisdom and Experience", The Mail on Sunday (30 August 2015).