I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.
MARGARET THATCHERThe facts of life are conservative.
More Margaret Thatcher Quotes
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Socialists are happy until they run out of other people’s money.
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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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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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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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If you can’t afford it, you can’t have it.
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I don’t think there will be a woman prime minister in my lifetime.
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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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Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.
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When people are free to choose, they choose freedom.
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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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Politicians should resist the temptation to consider themselves experts in fields where they have no experience.
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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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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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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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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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