Choice is the essence of ethics. If there were no choice there would be no ethics, no good, no evil. Good and evil only have meaning in so far as man is free to choose.
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The right hon. Gentleman is afraid of an election is he? Oh, if I were going to cut and run I'd have gone after the Falklands. Afraid? Frightened? Frit? Couldn't take it? Right now inflation is lower than it has been for thirteen years, a record he couldn't begin to touch!
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Socialists speak of a classless society. But their every action betrays their class consciousness. They talk of mass movements, block votes, class struggle, mass marches, mass this and mass that. People are not masses, or class members, but rather individuals and families.
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We cannot conceivably accept that a country can simply march into a neighbour, which is an independent country and a full member of the UN, and annex it.
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By undermining the self-respect of so many of the most vulnerable members of society - the respectable poor struggling for decency against the odds - the dependency culture poisoned and weakened society as a whole.
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Why is freedom of the Press vital? It is not because our newspapers are invariably literate, scrupulous & wise. They are not. It is because newspapers exist not only to protect their own freedom, but to defend freedom of others. That freedom is threatened both at home and abroad.
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The Government treats industry like a beast of burden. They put more & more weight on the animal, starve it of nutritious food, harness it ever more tightly and then shout at it to go faster. The regeneration of British industry will begin only when Government get off its back.
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Socialism is not social - it is an "ism", it is a control.
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The threat to peace comes from Communism, which has powerful forces ready to attack anywhere. Communism waits for weakness, it leaves strength alone. Britain therefore must be strong, strong in arms, and strong in faith in her own way of life.
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For me, so long as Britain is true to herself - with the freedom to decide for herself what is best for herself - she will always be Great Britain. 26 September 1995
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Most people should know by now that unless you pursue the policies of wealth creation, you will not in fact get the improvement of social services that you desire. Just because you speak softly & talk more about welfare and social services doesn't mean that you do more for them.
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We stress the need to have enough police, to have them well paid, well equipped and well respected.
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The Labour Party hasn't moved forward since Karl Marx's ideas, that's why it's totally morally and spiritually bankrupt.
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In a Conservative society we must strive to use the welfare state to help people to independence not condemn them to dependence. Our caring community must continue to help the needy and those for whom only the state can provide.
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To young people, I say: "when you visit Eastern Europe, learn from them about the socialist past that didn't work, & tell them about the Conservative future that will. And then come home & tell your friends of the excitement of people who are tasting freedom for the first time".
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Socialism requires coercion to impose the will of the State on the lives of the people and is as discredited and as bankrupt as the Marxist parties.
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We Conservatives are realists. We know that the British are one of the most creative and gifted peoples on earth. But we also know that the British are individualists, who do not respond to state direction and control. We like leadership, yes. But, above all, we like freedom.
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Those eras in which a high value has been placed on the individual are the ones which have known the greatest advances.
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Those who live under the heel of Marxist tyranny look with envy at the very things we take for granted. They know that politics is about more than economics in a free society.
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