Read morePolitics is not charity.
Read moreRemember, I only became a politician by accident …
Read moreThe Americans, as everybody knows, have little concern for principle; their own interests always take precedence.
Read moreClass is a barrier to realism and objectivity.
Read moreThe only sense in which I am proud to be an aristocrat is quite different: it involves the aspiration to the best in ourselves, the urge to spread our wings, to ascend and free ourselves. There is an aristocracy of the soul, irrespective of denomination, which gives us all our sense of honour, our reason for working, thinking, loving and living.
Read moreI do not feel that I am an aristocrat, I am unaware of the aristocrat you seem to see in me. I am a man and that is all.