If you just set out to be liked, you will be prepared to compromise on anything at any time and would achieve nothing.
MARGARET THATCHERDo you know, one of the greatest problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas?
More Margaret Thatcher Quotes
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A week is a long time in politics.
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I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
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Any leader has to have a certain amount of steel in them, so I am not that put out being called the Iron Lady.
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Of course, it’s the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
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Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
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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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When people are free to choose, they choose freedom.
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It pays to know the enemy – not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.
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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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The facts of life are conservative.
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The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.
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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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I don’t think there will be a woman prime minister in my lifetime.
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Do you know, one of the greatest problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas?
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I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.
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