Margaret Thatcher Quotes, Journey Quotes, Government Quotes

We should not expect the state to appear in the guise of an extravagant good fairy at every christening, a loquacious companion at every stage of life's journey, and the unknown mourner at every funeral.

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It's a funny old world.

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I am an undiluted admirer of American values and the American dream and I believe they will continue to inspire not just the people of the United States but millions across the face of the globe.

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Remember the 'Parable of the Talents' in the New Testament? Christ exhorts us to be the best we can be by developing our skills and abilities, by succeeding in all our tasks and endeavors. What better description can there be of capitalism?

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I have never knowingly made a non-controversial speech in my life.

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We're saying to anyone who dares to attack us, Do not do it, you couldn't win, the result would be devastating! I think you're saying the same.

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Object to merit and distinction, and you're setting your face against quality, independence, originality, genius against all the richness and variety of life. When you hold back the successful, you penalize those who need help.

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I do wish I had brought my cheque book. I don't believe in credit cards.

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Nevertheless, the Tenth Commandment-'Thou shalt not covet'-recognizes that making money and owning things could become selfish activities. But it is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but love of money for its own sake. The spiritual dimension comes in deciding what one does with the wealth. How could we respond to the many calls for help, or invest for the future, or support the wonderful artists or craftsmen whose work also glorifies God, unless we had first worked hard and used our talents to create the necessary wealth?

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Everything a politician promises at election time has to be paid for either by higher taxation or by borrowing.

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Citizenship should be based on those who have a close and real relationship with this country and its inhabitants.

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Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy.

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Every Conservative desires peace. The threat to peace comes from Communism which has powerful forces ready to attack anywhere. Communism waits for weakness, it leaves strength alone. Britain must therefore be strong, strong in her arms, strong in her faith, strong in her own way of life.

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For Dicey, writing in 1885, and for me reading him some seventy years later, the rule of law still had a very English, or at least Anglo-Saxon, feel to it. It was later, through Hayek's masterpieces "The Constitution of Liberty" and "Law, Legislation and Liberty" that I really came to think this principle as having wider application.

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Dictators can be deterred, they can be crushed - but they can never be appeased.

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We are very fortunate to have someone else's weapons stationed on our soil, to fight those targeted on us.

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I couldn't live without work. That's what makes me so sympathetic towards those people who are unemployed. I don't know how they live without working.

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I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

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To be free is better than to be unfree – always. Any politician who suggests the opposite should be treated as suspect.

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There might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.

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