Margaret Thatcher Quotes

There is no such thing as society.

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If you are guided by opinion polls, you are not practicing leadership -- you are practicing followership.

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The fact that seasoned politicians can say such ridiculous things - and get away with it - illustrates the degree to which the new dogma... has swept through the left-of-centre governing classes.

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Wars are not caused by the buildup of weapons. They are caused when an aggressor believes he can achieve his objectives at an acceptable price.

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I don't want to fight any wars; if you can get them off before we get there, you do it, but off they go.

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We need to create a mood where it is everywhere thought morally right for as many people as possible to acquire capital.

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I do not understand the unilateralists. If they hated nuclear weapons as much as I do they would want them down in the world as a whole. I am the true disarmer, I keep peace and freedom and justice with it.

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Socialism's results have ranged between the merely shabby and the truly catastrophic - poverty, strife, oppression and, on the killing fields of communism, the deaths this century of perhaps 100 million people. Against that doctrine was set a contrary, conservative belief in a law-governed liberty. It was this view which triumphed with the crumbling of the Berlin Wall. Since then, the Left has sought rehabilitation by distancing itself from its past.

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[When asked how it felt to be a female prime minister:] I don't know: I've never experienced the alternative.

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We must not fall into the trap of projecting our own morality onto the Soviet leaders. They do not share our aspirations, they are not constrained by our ethics, they always consider themselves exempt from the rules that bind other states.

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Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

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To accuse me of being too inflexible is poppycock.

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Consensus is the negation of leadership.

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To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

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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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The Third World is very much like the First World - just poorer: what works for the West will work for the rest as well.

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I love his music because he was my generation. But then again, Elvis is everyone's generation, and he always will be.

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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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The messages on our banners in 1979 - freedom, opportunity, family, enterprise, ownership - are now inscribed on the banners in Leipzig, Warsaw, Budapest and even Moscow.

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(I)t is highly questionable whether when 'Europe speaks with one voice', as we are so often told it is doing, anyone is really listening. Europe's reputation as a serious player in international affairs is unenviable. It is a feeble giant who desperate attempts to be taken seriously are largely risible. It has a weak currency and a sluggish inflexible economy, still much reliant on hidden protectionism. It has a shrinking, ageing, population and, with the exception of Britain, rather unimpressive armed forces and, not excepting Britain, muddled diplomacy.

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