I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.
MARGARET THATCHERPoliticians should resist the temptation to consider themselves experts in fields where they have no experience.
More Margaret Thatcher Quotes
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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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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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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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When people are free to choose, they choose freedom.
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Give me six men and true, and I will get policies through.
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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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It’s no time to be wobbly, Geo.
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It used to be about trying to do something. Now it’s about trying to be someone.
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Well, there’s a lot to react against!
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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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The facts of life are conservative.
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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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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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And I will go on criticizing Socialism, and opposing Socialism because it is bad for Britain.
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