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And what a prize we have to fight for: no less than the chance to banish from our land the dark divisive clouds of Marxist socialism.

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The habit of ubiquitous interventionism, combining pinprick strikes by precision weapons with pious invocations of high principle, would lead us into endless difficulties. Interventions must be limited in number and overwhelming in their impact.

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Wars are not caused by the buildup of weapons. They are caused when an aggressor believes he can achieve his objectives at an acceptable price.

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The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians.

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There is little hope for democracy if the hearts of men and women in democratic societies cannot be touched by a call to something greater than themselves.

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

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When I look at him [Edward Heath] and he looks at me, I don't feel that it is a man looking at a woman. More like a woman being looked at by another woman.

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Socialists don't like ordinary people choosing, for they might not choose Socialism.

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There's no such thing as entitlement, unless someone has first met an obligation.

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When others spoke of the fear of war, you spoke of the need for warriors and peace through strength. When others bewailed the failure of big government to provide for the collective good, you spoke of self-reliance, of personal responsibility, of individual pride and integrity. When others preached compromise - when others demanded compromise, you, Ronald Reagan, preached conviction.

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I'll stay until I'm tired of it. So long as Britain needs me, I shall never be tired of it.

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If there is one instance in which a foreign policy I pursued met with unambiguous failure, it was my policy on German reunification.

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The Prime Minister is stealing our clothes but he is going to look pretty ridiculous walking around in mine.

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During my lifetime most of the problems the world has faced have come, in one fashion or another, from mainland Europe and the solution from outside it.

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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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I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

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I might have preferred iron - but bronze will do. It won't rust. This time I hope, the head will stay on.

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If in the 1930s nuclear weapons had been invented and the Allies had been faced by Nazi SS20s and Backfire Bombers, would it then have been morally right to have handed Hitler control of one of the most terrible weapons man has ever made? Would not that have been the one way to ensure that the thousand year Reich became exactly that? Would not unilateralism have given to Hitler the world domination he sought?

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I don't know what I would do without Whitelaw. Everyone should have a Willy.

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I like Mr Gorbachev, we can do business together.

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