Margaret Thatcher Quotes, Country Quotes, Strong Quotes

If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

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Let our children grow tall and some taller than others if they have it in them to do so.

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I believe that the royal family are a focus of patriotism, of loyalty, of affection and of esteem. That is a rare combination, and we should value it highly.

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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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I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work.

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

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Their pitiless ideology only survives because it is maintained by force. But the day comes when the anger and frustration of the people is so great that force cannot contain it. Then the edifice cracks: the mortar crumbles.

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There's no such thing as entitlement, unless someone has first met an obligation.

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America, my friends, is the only country in the world actually founded on liberty - the only one. People went to America to be free.

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I can cope with nine of them, so they ought to be able to stand one of me. They could end the tiresomeness and stubbornness by giving me what I want.

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Obsolete weapons do not deter.

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Remember, George, this is no time to go wobbly.

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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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Object to merit and distinction, and you're setting your face against quality, independence, originality, genius against all the richness and variety of life. When you hold back the successful, you penalize those who need help.

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Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

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I want my money back!

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Any attempts by any government to change Community legislation to its own wishes are doomed to failure following the extension of policy areas now subject to majority voting... In our opinion, this must have serious implications for the traditional view of Parliament as a legislative body sovereignty.

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President Numeiri of Sudan is said to have remarked of Gadaffi that he was 'a man with a split personality - both of them evil'.

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No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well.

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

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