To wear your heart on your sleeve isn’t a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
MARGARET THATCHERStanding in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
More Margaret Thatcher Quotes
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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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Well, there’s a lot to react against!
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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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If you can’t afford it, you can’t have it.
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All collectivism is always conducive to oppression: it is only the victims who differ.
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The problem with socialists is that they always run out of other people’s money.
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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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I wasn’t lucky, I deserved it.
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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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The facts of life are conservative.
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I don’t think there will be a woman prime minister in my lifetime.
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Socialists are happy until they run out of other people’s money.
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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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You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
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