If you set out to be liked, you will accomplish nothing.
MARGARET THATCHERBeing powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.
More Margaret Thatcher Quotes
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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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Politicians should resist the temptation to consider themselves experts in fields where they have no experience.
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The larger Europe grows, the more diverse must be the forms of co-operation it requires.
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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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Socialists are happy until they run out of other people’s money.
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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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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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Nazism (National Socialism) and communism (international socialism) were but two sides of the same coin.
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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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Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
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All collectivism is always conducive to oppression: it is only the victims who differ.
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A week is a long time in politics.
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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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Those who were born at the depths of one great crisis who would be able to cope with the next.
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It’s no time to be wobbly, Geo.
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