There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.

You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side.

Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.