To wear your heart on your sleeve isn’t a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
MARGARET THATCHERA week is a long time in politics.
More Margaret Thatcher Quotes
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All collectivism is always conducive to oppression: it is only the victims who differ.
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I wasn’t lucky, I deserved it.
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If you can’t afford it, you can’t have it.
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When people are free to choose, they choose freedom.
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Politicians should resist the temptation to consider themselves experts in fields where they have no experience.
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It’s a funny old world.
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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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If you set out to be liked, you will accomplish nothing.
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A week is a long time in politics.
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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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It’s no time to be wobbly, Geo.
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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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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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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 don’t think there will be a woman prime minister in my lifetime.
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You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
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The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.
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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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Of course, it’s the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
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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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It used to be about trying to do something. Now it’s about trying to be someone.
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I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
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Well, there’s a lot to react against!
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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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