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Personal virtue is no substitute for political hard-headedness.

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Citizenship should be based on those who have a close and real relationship with this country and its inhabitants.

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Freedom under the law must never be taken for granted.

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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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I think, historically, the term 'Thatcherism' will be seen as a compliment.

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Once a woman is made man's equal, she becomes his superior.

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Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.

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You can't buck the market.

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It is always important in matters of high politics to know what you do not know. Those who think they know, but are mistaken, and act upon their mistakes, are the most dangerous people to have in charge.

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How very popular to say, 'spend more on this, expend more on that.' And of course, we all have our favorite causes; I know I do. But someone has to add up the figures. Every business has to do it, every housewife has to do it, [and] every government should do it.

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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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Unless we change our ways and our direction, our greatness as a nation will soon be a footnote in the history books, a distant memory of an offshore island, lost in the mist of time like Camelot, remembered kindly for its noble past.

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When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment, it's exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.

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[On Ronald Reagan:] Poor dear, there's nothing between his ears.

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The real case against socialism is not its economic inefficiency, though on all sides there is evidence of that. Much more fundamental is its basic immorality.

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

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The Iraqis had paid a terrible price for Saddam's folly (in the Gulf War). But looking at the devastation they left behind (in Kuwait), my sympathy was limited.

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Consensus is the negation of leadership.

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I think perhaps we manage our revolutions much more quietly in this country.

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

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