Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
MARGARET THATCHEROf course, it’s the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
More Margaret Thatcher Quotes
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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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It’s no time to be wobbly, Geo.
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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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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 don’t think there will be a woman prime minister in my lifetime.
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I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
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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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Give me six men and true, and I will get policies through.
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A week is a long time in politics.
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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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Those who were born at the depths of one great crisis who would be able to cope with the next.
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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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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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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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