Give me six men and true, and I will get policies through.
MARGARET THATCHERIf you set out to be liked, you will accomplish nothing.
More Margaret Thatcher Quotes
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If you just set out to be liked, you will be prepared to compromise on anything at any time and would achieve nothing.
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Socialists are happy until they run out of other people’s money.
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Of course, it’s the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
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The larger Europe grows, the more diverse must be the forms of co-operation it requires.
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You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
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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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Feminists hate me, don’t they? And I don’t blame them. For I hate feminism. It is poison.
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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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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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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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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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If you set out to be liked, you will accomplish nothing.
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What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
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Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.
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Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.
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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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Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends.
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Politicians should resist the temptation to consider themselves experts in fields where they have no experience.
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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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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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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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Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.
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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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While the home must always be the center of one’s life, it should not be the boundary of one’s ambitions.
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And I will go on criticizing Socialism, and opposing Socialism because it is bad for Britain.
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