DEFENCE OF
THE REALM
In the end it is not the weapons
which cause war but the people
who possess them.
Just rejoice at that news
and congratulate our forces
and the marines.
Democratic nations must try to find
ways to starve the terrorist and the
hijacker of the oxygen of publicity
on which they depend.
All attempts to destroy democracy
by terrorism will fail. It must be
business as usual.
It was sheer professionalism
and inspiration and the fact that you
really cannot have people marching
into other people’s territory and
staying there.
When you stop a dictator there are
always risks, but there are great risks
in not stopping a dictator.
If they are invaded,
we have got to
get them back.
A world without nuclear weapons
would be less stable and more
dangerous for all of us.
The Russians put guns before butter.
We put just about everything
before guns.
There is no need for Europeans to
quake before any threat from the
Soviet colossus.
Soviet military power will not
disappear just because we refuse
to look at it.
Perhaps some people in the
Labour Party think we are on
the same side as the Russians!
… a gentleman on the staff of
Pravda accused me of trying on
Churchill’s trousers.
Following England’s loss to
Germany in the 1990 football
World Cup semi-final:
Kenneth Clarke: Isn’t it terrible about
losing to the Germans at our national
sport, Prime Minister?
Margaret Thatcher: I shouldn’t worry
too much – we’ve beaten them twice
this century at theirs.
The supreme task of
modern statesmanship is the
prevention of war.
Prime Minister, you are
talking too much.