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 battle of the Falklands was a remarkable military operation, boldly planned, bravely executed, and brilliantly accomplished. We owe an enormous debt to the British forces and to the Merchant Marine. We honour them all. They have been supported by a people united in defence of our way of life and of our sovereign territory.
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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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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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Constitutions have to be written on hearts, not just paper.
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My father, more perceptive than many, wryly commented that by the time I was an adult there might not be an Indian Civil Service to enter. He turned out to be right. I had to settle for British politics instead.
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I am not sure what is meant by those who say that the Party should return to something called 'One Nation Conservatism'. As far as I can tell by their views on European federalism, such people's creed would be better described as 'No Nation Conservatism'.
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I support very much the approaches that the President Ronald Reagan is taking. As you know, I am his greatest fan!
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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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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 politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman.
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If they do not wish to confer the honour, I am the last person who would wish to receive it.
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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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It seems like cloud cuckoo land... If anyone is suggesting that I would go to Parliament and suggest the abolition of the pound sterling – no! … We have made it quite clear that we will not have a single currency imposed on us.
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They don't patronize me for being a woman. Nobody puts me down.
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What do you think of those two?
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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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It is not our policy to suppress success.
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If the past is any guide, what has happened this winter could happen again next winter and the winter after that and so on and so on. What we face is a threat to our whole way of life...The case is now surely overwhelming, there will be no solution to our difficulties which does not include some restriction on the power of the unions.
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We fly the British flag, not these awful things you are putting on tails.
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Pennies don't fall from heaven, they have to be earned here on earth.
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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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We are fighting a major internal war against terrorism in Northern Ireland, and need more troops in order to win it.