Any leader has to have a certain amount of steel in them, so I am not that put out being called the Iron Lady.
MARGARET THATCHERNo one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions; he had money as well.
More Margaret Thatcher Quotes
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A week is a long time in politics.
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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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Socialists are happy until they run out of other people’s money.
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It’s no time to be wobbly, Geo.
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In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.
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Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.
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If you set out to be liked, you will accomplish nothing.
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Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends.
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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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Nazism (National Socialism) and communism (international socialism) were but two sides of the same coin.
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The larger Europe grows, the more diverse must be the forms of co-operation it requires.
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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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Global warming provides a marvelous excuse for global socialism.
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Well, there’s a lot to react against!
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Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.
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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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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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All collectivism is always conducive to oppression: it is only the victims who differ.
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Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
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You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
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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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Of course, it’s the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
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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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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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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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