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The Nuremburg trials were attacked at the time as 'victor's justice'. And this is precisely what they were - and were intended to be.

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Consensus negates leadership.

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My first guiding principle is this: willing and active co-operation between independent sovereign states. Europe will be stronger precisely because it has France as France, Spain as Spain, Britain as Britain, each with its own customs, traditions and identity. It would be folly to try to fit them into some sort of identikit European personality.

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You don't win by just being against things, you only win by being for things and making your message perfectly clear.

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It is no exaggeration to describe plain English as a fundamental tool of government.

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I went to Oxford University - but I've never let that hold me back.

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History has taught us that freedom cannot long survive unless it is based on moral foundations. You can get the economics right, but in addition liberty must be cultivated as a moral quality.

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It is your tax which pays for public spending. The government have no money of their own. There is only taxpayers' money.

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I've learned one thing in politics. You don't take a decision until you have to.

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Choice is the essence of ethics: if there were no choice there would be no ethics, no good, no evil; good and evil have meaning only insofar as man is free to choose.

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The spirit of envy can destroy; it can never build.

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Defeat? I do not recognize the meaning of the word.

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Is there conscience in the Kremlin? Do they ever ask themselves what is the purpose of life? What is it all for?... No. Their creed is barren of conscience, immune to the promptings of good and evil.

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Constitutions have to be written on hearts, not just paper.

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We weren't getting a fair deal on the budget and I wasn't going to have it. There's a great strand of equity and fairness in the British people - this is our characteristic. There's not a strand of equity and fairness in Europe - they're out to get as much as they can. That's one of those enormous differences. So I tackled it on that basis.

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If you set out to be liked, you will accomplish nothing.

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Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy.

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I couldn't live without work. That's what makes me so sympathetic towards those people who are unemployed. I don't know how they live without working.

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I am an undiluted admirer of American values and the American dream and I believe they will continue to inspire not just the people of the United States but millions across the face of the globe.

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Terrorism thrives on a free society. The terrorist uses the feelings in a free society to sap the will of civilization to resist. If the terrorist succeeds, he has won and the whole of free society has lost.

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