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.
MARGARET THATCHERIt’s a funny old world.
More Margaret Thatcher Quotes
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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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Being Prime Minister is a lonely job. In a sense, it ought to be: you cannot lead from the crowd.
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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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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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You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
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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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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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I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
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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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It’s no time to be wobbly, Geo.
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And I will go on criticizing Socialism, and opposing Socialism because it is bad for Britain.
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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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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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Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.
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Global warming provides a marvelous excuse for global socialism.
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