It used to be about trying to do something. Now it’s about trying to be someone.
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.
More Margaret Thatcher Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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I wasn’t lucky, I deserved 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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Nazism (National Socialism) and communism (international socialism) were but two sides of the same coin.
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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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Feminists hate me, don’t they? And I don’t blame them. For I hate feminism. It is poison.
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Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
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All collectivism is always conducive to oppression: it is only the victims who differ.
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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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If you set out to be liked, you will accomplish nothing.
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