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.
MARGARET THATCHERNew ideas are created when they can be discussed freely, but if there is a correct view then you cease to have new ideas.
More Margaret Thatcher Quotes
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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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Well, there’s a lot to react against!
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The facts of life are conservative.
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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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When people are free to choose, they choose freedom.
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Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.
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It’s a funny old world.
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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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The larger Europe grows, the more diverse must be the forms of co-operation it requires.
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I’m back, and you knew I was coming. On my way here I passed a cinema with the sign ‘The Mummy Returns’
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The problem with socialists is that they always run out of other people’s money.
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For every idealistic peacemaker willing to renounce his self-defense in favor of a weapons-free world, there is at least one warmaker anxious to exploit the other’s good intentions.
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Global warming provides a marvelous excuse for global socialism.
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All collectivism is always conducive to oppression: it is only the victims who differ.
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