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 THATCHERGive me six men and true, and I will get policies through.
More Margaret Thatcher Quotes
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Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.
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Politicians should resist the temptation to consider themselves experts in fields where they have no experience.
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Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
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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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Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
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Feminists hate me, don’t they? And I don’t blame them. For I hate feminism. It is poison.
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The facts of life are conservative.
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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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I wasn’t lucky, I deserved it.
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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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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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It’s a funny old world.
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In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.
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All collectivism is always conducive to oppression: it is only the victims who differ.
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If you set out to be liked, you will accomplish nothing.
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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.
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When people are free to choose, they choose freedom.
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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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Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends.
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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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I don’t think there will be a woman prime minister in my lifetime.
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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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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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Give me six men and true, and I will get policies through.
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And I will go on criticizing Socialism, and opposing Socialism because it is bad for Britain.
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Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.
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