It pays to know the enemy – not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.
MARGARET THATCHERWhen people are free to choose, they choose freedom.
More Margaret Thatcher Quotes
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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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Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.
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Nazism (National Socialism) and communism (international socialism) were but two sides of the same coin.
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Politicians should resist the temptation to consider themselves experts in fields where they have no experience.
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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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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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It’s a funny old world.
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The facts of life are conservative.
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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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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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Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.
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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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Those who were born at the depths of one great crisis who would be able to cope with the next.
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