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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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It is not the business of politicians to please everyone.

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Don't Cry For Me, Argentina

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We went back on a very similar manifesto to things I believe in. The difference is that after eighteen months to two years he did the biggest U-turn on policy of all time and started to go the wrong way. In the end, that cost us the next election.

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Fear is not the basis for foreign policy.

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It is sometimes said that because of our past we, as a people, expect too much and set our sights too high. That is not the way I see it. Rather it seems to me that throughout my life in politics our ambitions have steadily shrunk. Our response to disappointment has not been to lengthen our stride but to shorten the distance to be covered. But with confidence in ourselves and in our future what a nation we could be!

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[On being asked how many Mrs. Thatchers there were:] Oh, three at least. There is the intellectual one, the intuitive one and the one at home.

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I might have preferred iron - but bronze will do. It won't rust. This time I hope, the head will stay on.

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I wouldn't be worth my salt if I weren't attracting some controversy and criticism. Everyone in the world who has done something in life has attracted criticism.

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I believe that the royal family are a focus of patriotism, of loyalty, of affection and of esteem. That is a rare combination, and we should value it highly.

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I have a habit of comparing the phraseology of communiques . . . noting a certain similarity of words, a certain similarity of optimism . . . and a certain similarity in the lack of practical results during the ensuring years.

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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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This business of the working class is on its way out I think. After all, aren't I working class? I work jolly hard, I can tell you.

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A quick cure is a quack cure.

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While the Soviet Union has imposed its rule on its neighbours and drawn an iron curtain between east and west, we in Great Britain have given freedom and independence to more than forty-eight countries whose populations now number more than a thousand million - a quarter of the world's total.

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

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Socialism is in no way a curate's egg

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Occupied Falklands are the thorn in my balls

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It's the Labour Government that have brought us record peacetime taxation. They've got the usual Socialist disease - they've run out of other people's money.

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I do wish I had brought my cheque book. I don't believe in credit cards.

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