Daniel Hannan

“To be anti-EU is not to be anti-Europe.”

“Free trade is the most effective anti-poverty program.”

“Brexit is not a disaster. It is a magnificent opportunity.”

“We are leaving a political union; we are not leaving Europe.”

“The whole point of internationalism is to celebrate the differences between nations, not to flatten them.”

“The single market was a political project from the beginning.”

“The EU is the only empire in history that has gone out of its way to punish anyone who tries to leave.”

“The point of leaving the EU is not to become a kind of mini-China. It's to become a super-Singapore.”

“There are few things more dangerous than a politician who has a theory.”

“The sublime and overarching virtue of patriotism is that it is not coercive. It is based on affection.”

“The essence of democracy is that we consent to be governed by people whom we can hire and fire.”

“Sovereignty is not a slogan. It's the mechanism that makes a democracy democratic.”

“If you want to feel the ebb and flow of history, you have to be a reader.”