Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
MARGARET THATCHERStanding in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
More Margaret Thatcher Quotes
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I’m back, and you knew I was coming. On my way here I passed a cinema with the sign ‘The Mummy Returns’
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I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.
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Of course, it’s the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
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Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends.
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It used to be about trying to do something. Now it’s about trying to be someone.
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A week is a long time in politics.
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I don’t think there will be a woman prime minister in my lifetime.
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The problem with socialists is that they always run out of other people’s money.
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Nowadays there really is no primary poverty left in this country. In Western countries, we are left with the problems which aren’t poverty
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Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It’s not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it’s when you’ve had everything to do, and you’ve done it.
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Well, there’s a lot to react against!
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The larger Europe grows, the more diverse must be the forms of co-operation it requires.
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We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain, only to see them reimposed at a European level with a European super-state exercising a new dominance from Brussels.
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No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions; he had money as well.
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Freedom will destroy itself if it is not exercised within some sort of moral framework, somebody of shared beliefs, some spiritual heritage transmitted through the Church, the family, and the school.
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The facts of life are conservative.
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In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.
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Politicians should resist the temptation to consider themselves experts in fields where they have no experience.
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Those who were born at the depths of one great crisis who would be able to cope with the next.
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It’s no time to be wobbly, Geo.
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Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.
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Socialists are happy until they run out of other people’s money.
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If you set out to be liked, you will accomplish nothing.
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I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.
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To wear your heart on your sleeve isn’t a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
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It’s a funny old world.
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