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It seemed to me singularly ill-contrived for the British government to be going to war with Hitler when Hitler might have been about to attack the Russians, and even more ill-contrived that, when Hitler did attack the Russians, he had already defeated the French army. What I'm saying is that the war shouldn't have been started in September 1939. . . from the point of view of Britain, the war was really not a good thing and I would regard it as, in effect, a defeat.

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Liberalism is essentially the belief that there can be a reconciliation of all difficulties and differences, and since there can't, it is a misleading way to approach politics.

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I'm an intellectual Thatcherite, just as I was an intellectual Powellite, and I think it important that the Conservative party should be in good hands and that it should win elections.

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I've read The Satanic Verses and I thought it a nasty, sneering, free-thinking book. . . I can understand why the book is offensive and it didn't seem to me to be anything but offensive when I read it.

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From Britain's point of view the 1939 war had been a liberal war which had been entered into in a condition of moral indignation without the resources to fight it, that it had been providential good fortune which had placed the burden of fighting on the Russians and the Americans.

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If there is a class war-and there is-it is important that it should be handled with subtlety and skill. . . . it is not freedom that Conservatives want; what they want is the sort of freedom that will maintain existing inequalities or restore lost ones.

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