The terrorist seeks to smash the most fundamental liberty of all: the right to lead our everyday lives on the basic assumption of safety.
From Charles Kennedy
Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.
I should do something about the cigarettes; I quite accept that it's bad for your health, but you know a moderate tipple is positively beneficial and, at certain times, absolutely essential.
I will go out of this world feet first with my Lib Dem membership card in my pocket.
Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.
There are hard choices to be made in balancing the country's security and an individual's liberties. But it is a choice that has to be faced.
We should have high expectations of our children, but politicians should not tell teachers how to meet them.
'Federalism', in the context of political and media usage in Britain, has come to mean the creation and imposition of a European superstate, one centralised in Brussels.
The way to defeat international terrorism is through international cooperation based on international law, clear intelligence, and a measured and appropriate military response.
I don't actually subscribe to the view that all power corrupts. But absolute power - when secured on the back of massive parliamentary majorities, which don't reflect the balance of political opinion in the country - can corrupt absolutely.
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