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I started out in life with two great advantages: No money and good parents.

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The truths of the Judaic-Christian tradition, are infinitely precious, not only, as I believe, because they are true, but also because they provide the moral impulse which alone can lead to that peace, in the true meaning of the word, for which we all long. . . . 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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A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

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New technology is the true friend of full employment; the indispensable ally of progress; and the surest guarantee of prosperity.

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There are forces more powerful and pervasive than the apparatus of war. You may chain a man, but you cannot chain his mind. You may enslave him, but you will not conquer his spirit. In every decade since the war Soviet leaders have been reminded that their pitiless ideology only survives because it is maintained by force. But the day will come when the anger and frustration of the people is so great that force cannot contain it. Then the edifice cracks; the mortar crumbles; one day, liberty will dawn on the other side of the wall.

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Working hard may not make you rich, but it should make you successful.

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I calculate that I was responsible for proposing the elevation to the Lords of some 214 of its present numbers.

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As prime minister, I worked closely with Ronald Reagan for eight of the most important years of all our lives. We talked regularly both before and after his presidency. And I have had time and cause to reflect on what made him a great president.

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I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job.

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Our judgement is that the presence of the Royal Marines garrison is sufficient deterrent against any possible aggression.

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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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Young people ought not to be idle, it is very bad for them.

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There are no personal sympathies in politics.

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I wasn't lucky. I deserved it.

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In the same period that the Americans have lived under one constitution our French friends notched up five. A Punch cartoon has a 19th century Englishman asking a librarian for a copy of the French constitution, only to be told: 'I am sorry Sir, we do not stock periodicals.'

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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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Why do you climb philosophical hills? Because they are worth climbing . . . There are no hills to go down unless you start from the top.

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Socialists cry “Power to the people”, and raise the clenched fist as they say it. We all know what they really mean - power over people, power to the State.

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Individualism has come in for an enormous amount of criticism over the years. It still does. It is widely assumed to be synonymous with selfishness...But the main reason why so many people in power have always disliked individualism is because it is individualists who are ever keenest to prevent the abuse of authority.

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Our aim is to make tax collecting a declining industry.

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