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 THATCHERNew ideas are created when they can be discussed freely, but if there is a correct view then you cease to have new ideas.
More Margaret Thatcher Quotes
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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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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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No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions; he had money as well.
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I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
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I don’t think there will be a woman prime minister in my lifetime.
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The facts of life are conservative.
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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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Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends.
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I wasn’t lucky, I deserved it.
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Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.
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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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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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Politicians should resist the temptation to consider themselves experts in fields where they have no experience.
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You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
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To wear your heart on your sleeve isn’t a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
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