If you just set out to be liked, you will be prepared to compromise on anything at any time and would achieve nothing.
MARGARET THATCHERFreedom 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.
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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Of course, it’s the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
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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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It’s a funny old world.
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Global warming provides a marvelous excuse for global socialism.
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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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If you can’t afford it, you can’t have 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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I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.
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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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Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
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The problem with socialists is that they always 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 don’t think there will be a woman prime minister in my lifetime.
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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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