What really thrilled me, having spent so much of my lifetime in Parliament, and talking about things like inflation, Social Security benefits, housing problems, environmental problems and so on, is that when it really came to the test, what's thrilled people wasn't those things, what thrilled people was once again being able to serve a great cause, the cause of liberty.
On the Falklands campaign, 1982
speech to Scottish Conservative Party conference, 14 May 1982; John Campbell The Iron Lady (2008)
