New ideas are created when they can be discussed freely, but if there is a correct view then you cease to have new ideas.
MARGARET THATCHERThe problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.
More Margaret Thatcher Quotes
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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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The facts of life are conservative.
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I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
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If you can’t afford it, you can’t have it.
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Any leader has to have a certain amount of steel in them, so I am not that put out being called the Iron Lady.
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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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It’s a funny old world.
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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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Those who were born at the depths of one great crisis who would be able to cope with the next.
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Politicians should resist the temptation to consider themselves experts in fields where they have no experience.
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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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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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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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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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I don’t think there will be a woman prime minister in my lifetime.
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I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.
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Nazism (National Socialism) and communism (international socialism) were but two sides of the same coin.
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Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.
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All collectivism is always conducive to oppression: it is only the victims who differ.
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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 Prime Minister is a lonely job. In a sense, it ought to be: you cannot lead from the crowd.
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If you set out to be liked, you will accomplish nothing.
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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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Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.
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Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
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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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