Margaret Thatcher Quotes, Country Quotes, Dry Up Quotes

It is in a country's interests to keep faith with its allies. States in this sense are like people. If you have a reputation for exacting favors and not returning them, the favours dry up.

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[M]ore than they wanted freedom, the Athenians wanted security. Yet they lost everything-security, comfort, and freedom. This was because they wanted not to give to society, but for society to give to them. The freedom they were seeking was freedom from responsibility. It is no wonder, then, that they ceased to be free. In the modern world, we should recall the Athenians' dire fate whenever we confront demands for increased state paternalism.

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

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We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain, only to see them re-imposed at a European level with a European super-state exercising a new dominance from Brussels.

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Please don't use the word tough. People might get the impression that I don't care. And I do care, very deeply. Resilient, I think.

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When in August 1793 a British delegation showed their hosts a terrestrial globe, it turned into a diplomatic incident, for the Chinese were furious to see that their empire covered so little of it. For centuries the Chinese had thought of themselves as 'The Middle Kingdom', that is the centre of the civilized world. To see otherwise was a shock.

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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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I have the money and they won't get their hands on it.

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To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.

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Socialism is in no way a curate's egg

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

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Being democratic is not enough, a majority cannot turn what is wrong into right. In order to be considered truly free, countries must also have a deep love of liberty and an abiding respect for the rule of law.

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Those who imagine that a politician would make a better figurehead than a hereditary monarch might perhaps make the acquaintance of more politicians.

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I love his music because he was my generation. But then again, Elvis is everyone's generation, and he always will be.

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I do not believe it is in the character of the British people to begrudge the lion's share to those who have genuinely played the lion's part. They are ready to recognise that those who create the wealth - and I mean not only material but intellectual wealth - enrich the whole nation.

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Bribing regimes to comply with requirements which they should have acknowledged in the first place is not a process that appeals to me.

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

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We must not fall into the mistake of thinking that it is America that trades with Taiwan or Europe that trades with Asia. The truth is that it is American companies that trade with Taiwanese companies.

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I owe nothing to Women's Lib.

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