Margaret Thatcher Quotes, Media Quotes, Waiting Quotes

To those waiting with bated breath for that favorite media catchphrase, the U-turn, I have only this to say, ‘You turn if you want; the lady’s not for turning.

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What happened in Russia in 1917 wasn't a revolution - it was a coup d'etat.

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Many of our troubles are due to the fact that our people turn to politicians for everything.

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Each generation has to stand up for democracy. It can't take anything for granted and may have to fight fundamental battles anew.

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For Dicey, writing in 1885, and for me reading him some seventy years later, the rule of law still had a very English, or at least Anglo-Saxon, feel to it. It was later, through Hayek's masterpieces "The Constitution of Liberty" and "Law, Legislation and Liberty" that I really came to think this principle as having wider application.

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One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.

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No great goal was ever easily achieved.

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I believe in the acceptance of personal responsibility, freedom of choice, and the British Empire, which took freedom and the rule of law to countries which would never have known it otherwise.

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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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Consensus is the absence of leadership.

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Failure? The possibilities do not exist.

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There's no such thing as society.

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We must remember our duty to Nature before it is too late. That duty is constant. It is never completed. It lives on as we breathe. It endures as we eat and sleep, work and rest, as we are born and as we pass away. The duty to Nature will remain long after our own endeavors have brought peace to the Middle East. It will weigh on our shoulders for as long as we wish to dwell on a living and thriving planet, and hand it on to our children and theirs.

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The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.

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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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Hope is no basis for a defense policy.

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Putting the World to Rights

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Advisers advise, and ministers decide.

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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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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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