The English ‘Cato’ cautioned that sabre-rattling sanctions and other forms of coercion are never in the country’s economic interest.

Peoples of another culture or region will not long tolerate a Government that uses guns and soldiers to secure their obedience.

There are solid reasons why countries with lower taxes and less regulation tend to be more prosperous.

The citizen should not dutifully accept government intrusion as the price of community life.

In one of his ‘Cato Letters’, John Trenchard took issue with the view (popular in Westminster) that the public could not be left to make up their own minds.

Edmund Burke urged Englishmen not to congratulate the French revolutionaries on their new-found liberty until they knew what they would do with it.