Margaret Thatcher Quotes, Country Quotes, People Quotes

There is no week, nor day, nor hour, when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their supreme confidence in themselves, and lose their roughness and spirit of defiance. Tyranny may always enter—there is no charm or bar against it.

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Ronald Reagan knew his own mind. He had firm principles - and, I believe, right ones. He expounded them clearly, he acted upon them decisively.

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Working hard may not make you rich, but it should make you successful.

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Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

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I started out in life with two great advantages: No money and good parents.

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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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You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

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You want to keep more of the money you earn? I'm afraid that's very selfish. We shall want to tax that away. You want to own shares in your firm? We can't have that. The state has to own your firm. You want to choose where to send your children to school? That's very divisive. You'll send your child where we tell you.

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We do not have a freehold on the earth, only a full repairing lease

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To accuse me of being too inflexible is poppycock.

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Bribing regimes to comply with requirements which they should have acknowledged in the first place is not a process that appeals to me.

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Our children need strong families raising them with sturdy virtues, not to be smothered in the cold arms of the state.

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We had to fight the enemy without in the Falklands. We always have to be aware of the enemy within, which is much more difficult to fight and more dangerous to liberty.

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(Not) even the US can impose peace: it has to be genuinely accepted by both parties involved.

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I hate feminism. It is poison.

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It is your tax which pays for public spending. The government have no money of their own. There is only taxpayers' money.

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When I'm out of politics I'm going to run a business, it'll be called rent-a-spine

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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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I calculate that I was responsible for proposing the elevation to the Lords of some 214 of its present numbers.

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I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

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