No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions; he had money as well.
MARGARET THATCHERWhat 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.
More Margaret Thatcher Quotes
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A week is a long time in politics.
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I wasn’t lucky, I deserved it.
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I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
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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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Global warming provides a marvelous excuse for global socialism.
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Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
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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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If you can’t afford it, you can’t have it.
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The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.
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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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Give me six men and true, and I will get policies through.
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Well, there’s a lot to react against!
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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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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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