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.
MARGARET THATCHERFor 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.
More Margaret Thatcher Quotes
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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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Well, there’s a lot to react against!
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All collectivism is always conducive to oppression: it is only the victims who differ.
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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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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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Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
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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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Give me six men and true, and I will get policies through.
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I don’t think there will be a woman prime minister in my lifetime.
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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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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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And I will go on criticizing Socialism, and opposing Socialism because it is bad for Britain.
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It’s no time to be wobbly, Geo.
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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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I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.
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