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The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians.

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Under a Labour government, there's virtually nowhere you can put your savings where they would be safe from the state. ... If you put money in a sock they'd probably nationalize socks.

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I would just like to remember some words of St. Francis of Assisi which I think are really just particularly apt at the moment. 'Where there is discord, may we bring harmony. Where there is error, may we bring truth. Where there is doubt, may we bring faith. And where there is despair, may we bring hope.

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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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Occupied Falklands are the thorn in my balls

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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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The desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom.

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When you hold back the successful, you penalize those who need help.

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I personally have always voted for the death penalty because I believe that people who go out prepared to take the lives of other people forfeit their own right to live. I believe that that death penalty should be used only very rarely, but I believe that no-one should go out certain that no matter how cruel, how vicious, how hideous their murder, they themselves will not suffer the death penalty.

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Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.

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Everything a politician promises at election time has to be paid for either by higher taxation or by borrowing.

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We should not underestimate the enormity of the task which lies ahead. But little can be achieved without sound money. It is the bedrock of sound government.

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We should not expect the state to appear in the guise of an extravagant good fairy at every christening, a loquacious companion at every stage of life's journey, and the unknown mourner at every funeral.

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People from my sort of background needed Grammar schools to compete with children from privileged homes like Shirley Williams and Anthony Wedgwood Benn.

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I couldn't live without work. That's what makes me so sympathetic towards those people who are unemployed. I don't know how they live without working.

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I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

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My job is to stop Britain from going red.

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We introduced the Community Charge. I still call it that. I like the Poles - I never had any intention of taxing them.

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If there is one instance in which a foreign policy I pursued met with unambiguous failure, it was my policy on German reunification.

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I'll stay until I'm tired of it. So long as Britain needs me, I shall never be tired of it.

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