I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.
MARGARET THATCHEREurope was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
More Margaret Thatcher Quotes
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I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
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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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Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends.
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A week is a long time in politics.
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Global warming provides a marvelous excuse for global socialism.
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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 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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Those who were born at the depths of one great crisis who would be able to cope with the next.
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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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If you set out to be liked, you will accomplish nothing.
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I don’t think there will be a woman prime minister in my lifetime.
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I wasn’t lucky, I deserved it.
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Politicians should resist the temptation to consider themselves experts in fields where they have no experience.
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