Margaret Thatcher Quotes, Accusation Quotes, Wells Quotes

Well, there's a lot to react against![in response to the accusation that she was a reactionary]

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No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well.

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In the background lurks the scourge of international terrorism. There are people exercising power in a few countries and leading political factions in others who seem to be moved by narrow, brutal and irrational impulses. Their view of their own self-interest is so blinkered as to leave no space for purely human values, for peaceful negotiation or for economic advancement. They are bent on the destruction of the established order and of civilised ways of doing business. They must never be allowed to succeed.

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Ideally, when Christians meet, as Christians do, to take counsel together, their purpose is not ( or should not be) to ascertain what is the mind of the majority but what is the mind of the Holy Spirit - something which may be quite different.

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The Government wants a peaceful settlement. But we totally reject a peaceful sell-out.

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In my view dictators do not surrender. They have to be well and truly defeated.

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Under a Labour government, there's virtually nowhere you can put your savings where they would be safe from the state. ... If you put money in a sock they'd probably nationalize socks.

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Whether manufactured by black, white, brown or yellow hands, a widget remains a widget – and it will be bought anywhere if the price and quality are right. The market is a more powerful and more reliable liberating force than government can ever be.

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You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.

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You want to keep more of the money you earn? I'm afraid that's very selfish. We shall want to tax that away. You want to own shares in your firm? We can't have that. The state has to own your firm. You want to choose where to send your children to school? That's very divisive. You'll send your child where we tell you.

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I'm back... and you knew I was coming. On my way here I passed a cinema with the sign 'The Mummy Returns'.

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Defeat? I do not recognize the meaning of the word.

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I don't think any woman in power really has a happy life unless she's got a large number of women friends ... because you sometimes must go and sit down and let down your hair with someone you can trust totally.

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Freedom is not synonymous with an easy life. ... There are many difficult things about freedom: It does not give you safety, it creates moral dilemmas for you; it requires self-discipline; it imposes great responsibilities; but such is the nature of Man and in such consists his glory and salvation.

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Being powerful is a lot like being a woman: If you have to tell someone that you are, invariably, you are not.

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Marxists get up early to further their cause. We must get up even earlier to defend our freedom.

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Constitutions have to be written on hearts, not just paper.

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If you have a sense of purpose and a sense of direction, I believe people will follow you. Democracy isn't just about deducing what the people want. Democracy is leading the people as well.

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The Third World is very much like the First World - just poorer: what works for the West will work for the rest as well.

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Good Conservatives always pay their bills. And on time. Not like the Socialists who run up other people's bills.

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