Nowadays there really is no primary poverty left in this country. In Western countries, we are left with the problems which aren’t poverty
MARGARET THATCHERIf you just set out to be liked, you will be prepared to compromise on anything at any time and would achieve nothing.
More Margaret Thatcher Quotes
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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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Nazism (National Socialism) and communism (international socialism) were but two sides of the same coin.
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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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New ideas are created when they can be discussed freely, but if there is a correct view then you cease to have new ideas.
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Well, there’s a lot to react against!
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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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It’s no time to be wobbly, Geo.
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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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Feminists hate me, don’t they? And I don’t blame them. For I hate feminism. It is poison.
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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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All collectivism is always conducive to oppression: it is only the victims who differ.
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Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.
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Being Prime Minister is a lonely job. In a sense, it ought to be: you cannot lead from the crowd.
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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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For every idealistic peacemaker willing to renounce his self-defense in favor of a weapons-free world, there is at least one warmaker anxious to exploit the other’s good intentions.
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