Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.
MARGARET THATCHERAll collectivism is always conducive to oppression: it is only the victims who differ.
More Margaret Thatcher Quotes
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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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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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Feminists hate me, don’t they? And I don’t blame them. For I hate feminism. It is poison.
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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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In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.
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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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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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The facts of life are conservative.
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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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If you set out to be liked, you will accomplish nothing.
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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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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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Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.
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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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Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.
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