More from Margaret Thatcher
Politicians should resist the temptation to consider themselves experts in fields where they have no experience.
Margaret ThatcherMargaret Thatcher 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.
Margaret ThatcherMargaret Thatcher All collectivism is always conducive to oppression: it is only the victims who differ.
Margaret ThatcherMargaret Thatcher The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.
Margaret ThatcherMargaret Thatcher In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.
Margaret ThatcherMargaret Thatcher Any leader has to have a certain amount of steel in them, so I am not that put out being called the Iron Lady.
Margaret ThatcherMargaret Thatcher While the home must always be the center of one’s life, it should not be the boundary of one’s ambitions.
Margaret ThatcherMargaret Thatcher I’m back, and you knew I was coming. On my way here I passed a cinema with the sign ‘The Mummy Returns’
Margaret ThatcherMargaret Thatcher I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.
Margaret ThatcherMargaret Thatcher 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.
Margaret ThatcherMargaret Thatcher And I will go on criticizing Socialism, and opposing Socialism because it is bad for Britain.
Margaret ThatcherMargaret Thatcher 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.
Margaret ThatcherMargaret Thatcher No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions; he had money as well.
Margaret ThatcherMargaret Thatcher 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 ThatcherMargaret Thatcher 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.
Margaret ThatcherMargaret Thatcher When people are free to choose, they choose freedom.
Margaret ThatcherMargaret Thatcher
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Find someone who can hear you even when you’re silent.
Brad NeatonBrad Neaton Shadows follow me the way a vulture stalks death. One small step ahead.
Danielle MontgomeryDanielle Montgomery Hidden in the ashes, of a fallen building lays a child’s family photo, with whom he could never unite in life.
Heba NazarHeba Nazar To love something, someone. You don’t need to own them.
Sonika MSonika M When you miss someone, you realize their worth and your faith.
Aradhna S BirenAradhna S Biren The bed was the canvas, we were the art.
Jonny OxJonny Ox Every little part of your soul was made to shine.
Ashley PrzywolskiAshley Przywolski When in truth, it is the transparency that kills you. The pain of seeing through to something you can never quite touch.
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We have woven a web, you and I, attached to this world but a separate world of our own invention.
John KeatsJohn Keats He had come to know quite thoroughly the world in which he lived. His outlook was bleak and materialistic. The world as he saw it was a fierce and brutal world, a world without warmth, a world in which caresses and affection and the bright sweetness of spirit did not exist.
Jack LondonJack London They please the world most, who please Christ least.
St. JeromeSt. Jerome The Great Spirit will not make me suffer because I am ignorant. He will put me in a place where I shall be better off than in this world.
Red CloudRed Cloud I don’t really like politics that much. And I like the order and simplicity of sports. They have an ending. You can argue with your friends about it, but in the end you still like sports. I almost love the fantasy world of sports more than the real world.
Norm MacDonaldNorm MacDonald He said “You can be anything you want to in this great big world” But I’m always gonna be, Daddy’s little girl.
Kriti SanonKriti Sanon I want to show everyone in this world that the soul is the source of our happiness, strength and health. Love actually comes from the soul, from the light.
Wim HofWim Hof Some people help you see the world differently, those are my kind of people.
Melody LeeMelody Lee
