It used to be about trying to do something. Now it’s about trying to be someone.
MARGARET THATCHERIt pays to know the enemy – not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.
More Margaret Thatcher Quotes
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Give me six men and true, and I will get policies through.
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Nazism (National Socialism) and communism (international socialism) were but two sides of the same coin.
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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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It’s a funny old world.
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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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Socialists are happy until they run out of other people’s money.
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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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Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.
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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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If you can’t afford it, you can’t have it.
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All collectivism is always conducive to oppression: it is only the victims who differ.
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Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
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Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
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I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.
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Of course, it’s the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
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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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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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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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A week is a long time in politics.
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If you just set out to be liked, you will be prepared to compromise on anything at any time and would achieve nothing.
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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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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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No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions; he had money as well.
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Well, there’s a lot to react against!
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When people are free to choose, they choose freedom.
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