"I don't want to be Prime Minister of England, I want to be Prime Minister of the whole of the United Kingdom."

"There's another way we are getting behind business - by sorting out the banks. Taxpayers bailed you out. Now it's time for you to repay the favour and start lending to Britain's small businesses."

"Today, hundreds of millions dwell in freedom, from the Baltic to the Adriatic, from the Western Approaches to the Aegean. And while we must never take this for granted, the first purpose of the European Union - to secure peace - has been achieved and we should pay tribute to all those in the EU, alongside Nato, who made that happen."

"From Caesar's legions to the Napoleonic wars. From the Reformation, the Enlightenment and the industrial revolution to the defeat of nazism. We have helped to write European history, and Europe has helped write ours."

"One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do."

"People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year."

"We do not remember the passing of hours, but the resonance of moments. Remember this in moments of decisive trial — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Do not hurry what nature takes seasons to unfold. Such is the immutable nature of understanding."