It’s no time to be wobbly, Geo.
MARGARET THATCHERThe facts of life are conservative.
More Margaret Thatcher Quotes
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I don’t think there will be a woman prime minister in my lifetime.
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Nazism (National Socialism) and communism (international socialism) were but two sides of the same coin.
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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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And I will go on criticizing Socialism, and opposing Socialism because it is bad for Britain.
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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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The problem with socialists is that they always run out of other people’s money.
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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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I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
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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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Of course, it’s the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
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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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I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.
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Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.
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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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When people are free to choose, they choose freedom.
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All collectivism is always conducive to oppression: it is only the victims who differ.
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If you can’t afford it, you can’t have it.
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Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
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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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Feminists hate me, don’t they? And I don’t blame them. For I hate feminism. It is poison.
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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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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 usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.
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It’s a funny old world.
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I’m back, and you knew I was coming. On my way here I passed a cinema with the sign ‘The Mummy Returns’
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