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All the general propositions favouring freedom I had .. imbibed at my father's knee or acquired by candle-end reading of Burke and Hayek...

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The choice facing the nation is between two totally different ways of life. And what a prize we have to fight for: no less than the chance to banish from our land the dark, divisive clouds of Marxist socialism and bring together men and women from all walks of life who share a belief in freedom.

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

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The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of everyone else's money.

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Occupied Falklands are the thorn in my balls

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There are no personal sympathies in politics.

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I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

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If your only opportunity is to be equal then it is not opportunity.

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When government does its job properly people are free to do theirs.

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... when a big man has a big idea I never like to stand in his way.

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When you take into public ownership a profitable industry the profits soon disappear. The goose that laid the golden eggs goes broody. State geese are not great layers.

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I shall fight on, I shall fight to win.

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Hope is no basis for a defense policy.

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[On George H.W. Bush:] By 1990 I had learned that I had to defer to him in conversation and not to stint the praise. If that was what was necessary to secure Britain's interests and influence, I had no hesitation in eating a little humble pie.

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How thin is the crust of order over the fires of human appetite and the lust for naked power.

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They are all a rotten lot. Schmidt and the Americans and we are the only people who would do any standing up and fighting if necessary.

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It took us a long time to get rid of the effects of the French Revolution 200 years ago. We don't want another one.

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If I were a German today, I would be proud, proud but also worried. I would be proud of the magnificent achievement of rebuilding my country, entrenching democracy and assuming the undoubtedly preponderant position in Europe. But a united Germany can't and won't subordinate its national interests in economic or in foreign policy to those of the Community indefinitely. Germany's new pre-eminence is a fact - and its power is a problem - as much for Germans as for the rest of Europe.

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

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It must be a conviction Government. As Prime Minister I could not waste time having internal arguments.

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