If you set out to be liked, you will accomplish nothing.
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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The larger Europe grows, the more diverse must be the forms of co-operation it requires.
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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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Socialists are happy until they run out of other people’s money.
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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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I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.
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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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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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It’s no time to be wobbly, Geo.
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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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You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
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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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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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Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.
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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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And I will go on criticizing Socialism, and opposing Socialism because it is bad for Britain.
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