It’s no time to be wobbly, Geo.
MARGARET THATCHERTo wear your heart on your sleeve isn’t a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
More Margaret Thatcher Quotes
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While the home must always be the center of one’s life, it should not be the boundary of one’s ambitions.
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A week is a long time in politics.
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It pays to know the enemy – not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.
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If you set out to be liked, you will accomplish nothing.
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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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Give me six men and true, and I will get policies through.
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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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Well, there’s a lot to react against!
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I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.
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You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
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Of course, it’s the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
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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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Those who were born at the depths of one great crisis who would be able to cope with the next.
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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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It used to be about trying to do something. Now it’s about trying to be someone.
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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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If you can’t afford it, you can’t have it.
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I wasn’t lucky, I deserved it.
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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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No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions; he had money as well.
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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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Nazism (National Socialism) and communism (international socialism) were but two sides of the same coin.
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Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
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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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I don’t think there will be a woman prime minister in my lifetime.
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