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 THATCHERBeing Prime Minister is a lonely job. In a sense, it ought to be: you cannot lead from the crowd.
More Margaret Thatcher Quotes
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The problem with socialists is that they always run out of other people’s money.
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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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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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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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Those who were born at the depths of one great crisis who would be able to cope with the next.
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Global warming provides a marvelous excuse for global socialism.
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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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Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends.
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I wasn’t lucky, I deserved it.
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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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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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It’s a funny old world.
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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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I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
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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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Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
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All collectivism is always conducive to oppression: it is only the victims who differ.
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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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Nazism (National Socialism) and communism (international socialism) were but two sides of the same coin.
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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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A week is a long time in politics.
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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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Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.
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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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