If you set out to be liked, you will accomplish nothing.
MARGARET THATCHERThose who were born at the depths of one great crisis who would be able to cope with the next.
More Margaret Thatcher Quotes
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I wasn’t lucky, I deserved it.
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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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Politicians should resist the temptation to consider themselves experts in fields where they have no experience.
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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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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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Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.
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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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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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If you can’t afford it, you can’t have it.
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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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Of course, it’s the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
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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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Feminists hate me, don’t they? And I don’t blame them. For I hate feminism. It is poison.
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And I will go on criticizing Socialism, and opposing Socialism because it is bad for Britain.
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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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