No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions; he had money as well.
MARGARET THATCHERI wasn’t lucky, I deserved it.
More Margaret Thatcher Quotes
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When people are free to choose, they choose freedom.
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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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Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
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If you can’t afford it, you can’t have it.
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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 just set out to be liked, you will be prepared to compromise on anything at any time and would achieve nothing.
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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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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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I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.
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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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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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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 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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The facts of life are conservative.
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