If you can’t afford it, you can’t have it.
MARGARET THATCHERIt used to be about trying to do something. Now it’s about trying to be someone.
More Margaret Thatcher Quotes
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And I will go on criticizing Socialism, and opposing Socialism because it is bad for Britain.
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It’s no time to be wobbly, Geo.
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Well, there’s a lot to react against!
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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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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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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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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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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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When people are free to choose, they choose freedom.
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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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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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I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.
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The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.
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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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