Lift The Curtain And 'the State' Reveals

Of Course I Am Very Proud Of Being A Tory. Yes, In My Head And In My Heart I Regard Myself As A Tory. As I Have Said, I Was Born That Way; I Believe It Is Congenital. I Am Unable To Change It. That Is How I See The World... [the Eec] Is The Most Un-tory Thing That Can Be Conceived.

The Life Of Nations No Less Than That Of Men Is Lived Largely In The Imagination.

Lift The Curtain And 'the State' Reveals Itself As A Little Group Of Fallible Men In Whitehall, Making Guesses About The Future, Influenced By Political Prejudices And Partisan Prejudices, And Working On Projections Drawn From The Past By A Staff Of Economists.

When We Look At The Astonishing Material Achievements Of The West. We See These Things As The Result, Not Of Compulsion Or Government Action Or The Superior Wisdom Of A Few, But Of That System Of Competition And Free Enterprise, Rewarding Success And Penalising Failure, Which Enables Every Individual To Participate By His Private Decisions In Shaping The Future Of His Society.

As I Look Ahead, I Am Filled With Foreboding. Like The Roman, I Seem To See "the River Tiber Foaming With Much Blood.