One Speaks With Great Respect Of Economists,

The Great Vice Of Democracy Is That For A Generation We Have Been Busy Getting Ourselves On To The List Of Beneficiaries And Removing Ourselves From The List Of Contributors, As If Somewhere There Was Somebody Else's Effort On Which We Could Thrive.

We Took The Name 'liberal' Because We Were Determined To Be A Progressive Party, Willing To Make Experiments, In No Sense Reactionary But Believing In The Individual, His Rights, And His Enterprise, And Rejecting The Socialist Panacea.

I Am One Of The Few Men Honest Enough To Say They Do Not Understand Women.

The Kind Of People I Myself Represent In Parliament; Salary Earners, Shopkeepers, Skilled Artisans, Professional Men And Women, Farmers And So On, These Are, In A Political And Economic Sense, The Middle Class. They Are For The Most Part Unorganised And Unselfconscious.

Modern History Is, As You All Know, Full Of Examples Of Great Movements That Disappeared Because They Had Ceased To Have Any Genuine Reason For Existence. The Important Thing Is To Have A Faith To Live By, And That Goes For Us In This Party.