Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
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 can’t afford it, you can’t have it.
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Politicians should resist the temptation to consider themselves experts in fields where they have no experience.
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Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.
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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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The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.
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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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The larger Europe grows, the more diverse must be the forms of co-operation it requires.
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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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No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions; he had money as well.
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You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
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I don’t think there will be a woman prime minister in my lifetime.
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Give me six men and true, and I will get policies through.
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The facts of life are conservative.
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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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I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.
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