Politicians should resist the temptation to consider themselves experts in fields where they have no experience.
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More Margaret Thatcher Quotes
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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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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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Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.
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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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Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
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When people are free to choose, they choose freedom.
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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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Nazism (National Socialism) and communism (international socialism) were but two sides of the same coin.
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If you set out to be liked, you will accomplish nothing.
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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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No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions; he had money as well.
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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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The larger Europe grows, the more diverse must be the forms of co-operation it requires.
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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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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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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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Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
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If you can’t afford it, you can’t have it.
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It’s no time to be wobbly, Geo.
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Of course, it’s the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
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Give me six men and true, and I will get policies through.
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Any leader has to have a certain amount of steel in them, so I am not that put out being called the Iron Lady.
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And I will go on criticizing Socialism, and opposing Socialism because it is bad for Britain.
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You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
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Well, there’s a lot to react against!
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