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I cannot imagine how any diplomat, or any dramatist, could improve on (Ronald Reagan's) words to Mikhail Gorbachev at the Geneva summit: 'Let me tell you why it is we distrust you.' Those words are candid and tough and they cannot have been easy to hear. But they are also a clear invitation to a new beginning and a new relationship that would be rooted in trust.

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Misgovernment...will often be reflected in oppressive or aggressive policies towards groups within the state or towards the state's neighbours.

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I don't think there will be a woman Prime Minister in my lifetime.

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We do not have a freehold on the earth, only a full repairing lease

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Each generation has to stand up for democracy. It can't take anything for granted and may have to fight fundamental battles anew.

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Never in the history of human credit has so much been owed.

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We have been ruled by men who live by illusions ... the illusion that there is some other way of creating wealth than hard work and satisfying your customers.

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Let us never forget this fundamental truth: The State has no source of money other than the money people themselves earn.

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One of my favourite quotations is: 'That which thy father bequeathed thee, earn it anew, if thou wouldst possess it.'

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If one generation is expected to carry an excessive burden on behalf of another, it will seek by every means to avoid it. It will either demand that past promises are broken, or it will not work, or it will not pay taxes, or the most talented people will leave. Socialist governments which have tried to tax 'till the pips squeak' have ample experience of that.

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The desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom.

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The European single currency is bound to fail, economically, politically and indeed socially, though the timing, occasion and full consequences are all necessarily still unclear.

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We introduced the Community Charge. I still call it that. I like the Poles - I never had any intention of taxing them.

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Let us, then, draw together in the name, not of jingoism, but of justice

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We have become a grandmother.

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People are really rather afraid that this country might be rather swamped by people with a different culture.

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In my lifetime all our problems have come from mainland Europe and all the solutions have come from the English-speaking nations across the world.

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Most women defend themselves. It is the female of the species-it is the tigress and lioness in you which tends to defend when attacked.

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It is one of the great weaknesses of reasonable men and women that they imagine that projects which fly in the face of commonsense are not serious or being seriously undertaken.

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There is much to be said for trying to improve some disadvantaged people’s lot. There is nothing to be said for trying to create heaven on earth.

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