It used to be about trying to do something. Now it’s about trying to be someone.
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It used to be about trying to do something. Now it’s about trying to be someone.
MARGARET THATCHEREurope was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
MARGARET THATCHERAll collectivism is always conducive to oppression: it is only the victims who differ.
MARGARET THATCHERIf you set out to be liked, you will accomplish nothing.
MARGARET THATCHERFreedom 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.
MARGARET THATCHERWhile the home must always be the center of one’s life, it should not be the boundary of one’s ambitions.
MARGARET THATCHERStanding in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
MARGARET THATCHERYou may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
MARGARET THATCHERThose who were born at the depths of one great crisis who would be able to cope with the next.
MARGARET THATCHERNew ideas are created when they can be discussed freely, but if there is a correct view then you cease to have new ideas.
MARGARET THATCHERIt’s no time to be wobbly, Geo.
MARGARET THATCHERA week is a long time in politics.
MARGARET THATCHERAnd I will go on criticizing Socialism, and opposing Socialism because it is bad for Britain.
MARGARET THATCHERThe larger Europe grows, the more diverse must be the forms of co-operation it requires.
MARGARET THATCHERLook 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.
MARGARET THATCHERWe 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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