Margaret Thatcher Quotes
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You know, if you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything, wouldn't you, at any time? And you would achieve nothing!
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Oh, but you know, you do not achieve anything without trouble, ever.
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(The Community Charge is) the flagship of the Thatcher fleet.
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It is not our policy to suppress success.
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A man may climb Everest for himself, but at the summit he plants his country's flag.
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Don't you think that's the way to persuade more companies to come to this region and get more jobs—because I want them—for the people who are unemployed. Not always standing there as moaning minnies. Now stop it!
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For my part, I favour an approach to statecraft that embraces principles, as long as it is not stifled by them; and I prefer such principles to be accompanied by steel along with good intentions.
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You cannot build a great nation or brotherhood of man by spreading envy or hatred.
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We will not reflate...Past governments have tried that. Past governments have deliberately created inflation in the hope of reducing unemployment. It always finished up with worse inflation and worse unemployment. Mr President, You can't build a secure future on dishonest money. And there is a fundamental truth, from which no government can escape.
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In considering our traditional ties with the Commonwealth we should remember that it now differs greatly from the entity which existed 20 or 30 years ago. Many of us do not feel quite the same allegiance to Archbishop Makarios or Doctor Nkrumah or to people like Jomo Kenyatta as we do towards Mr. Menzies of Australia.
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I could never have signed this treaty. I hope that that is clear to all who have heard me.
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We fly the British flag, not these awful things you are putting on tails.
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Economics are the method; the object is to change the heart and soul.
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It is always important in matters of high politics to know what you do not know. Those who think they know, but are mistaken, and act upon their mistakes, are the most dangerous people to have in charge.
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Let me say this, if you want someone weak you don't want me, there are plenty of others to choose from.
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In the Conservative Party, we have no truck with outmoded Marxist doctrine about class warfare. For us, it is not who you are, who your family is or where you come from that matters. It is what you are and what you can do for our country that counts. That is our vision.
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There is no such thing as society. There is living tapestry of men and women and people and the beauty of that tapestry and the quality of our lives will depend upon how much each of us is prepared to take responsibility for ourselves and each of us prepared to turn round and help by our own efforts those who are unfortunate.
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Member for Islwyn was going to have a single currency willy-nilly. He has already made up his mind. The argument that he uses is that, if others have it, we must. That is an argument for a flock of sheep, not for people who are sent here to analyse the problem and to use our minds and our reason to say which course we should follow.
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Singapore's success shows us that:
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Each demand for security, whether of employment, income or social position, implied the exclusion from such benefits of those outside the particular privileged group - and would generate demands for countervailing privileges from the excluded groups. Eventually, in such a situation every will lose.
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They don't patronize me for being a woman. Nobody puts me down.
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Pennies don't fall from heaven, they have to be earned here on earth.
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In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman.
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We are fighting a major internal war against terrorism in Northern Ireland, and need more troops in order to win it.