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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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Human rights did not begin with the French Revolution...[they] really stem from a mixture of Judaism and Christianity...[we English] had 1688, our quiet revolution, where Parliament exerted its will over the King...it was not the sort of Revolution that France's was...'Liberty, equality, fraternity' - they forgot obligations and duties I think. And then of course the fraternity went missing for a long time.

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Our aim is to make tax collecting a declining industry.

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(On The International Criminal Court) "For the victors of the Cold War to submit to an unelected, unaccountable, and almost certainly hostile body such as that envisaged would be the ultimate irony."

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I went to Oxford University - but I've never let that hold me back.

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A bully has no respect for a weakling and the way to stop a bully is not to be weak. The way to stop a bully from ever being a bully is to say: "I'm as strong as you. Anything you do to me, I can do to you." We are going for nuclear and conventional disarmament but we're going about it in the right way.

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Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends." ~ (1925- ), English political leader.

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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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Young people ought not to be idle, it is very bad for 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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If you have a sense of purpose and a sense of direction, I believe people will follow you. Democracy isn't just about deducing what the people want. Democracy is leading the people as well.

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There is little hope for democracy if the hearts of men and women in democratic societies cannot be touched by a call to something greater than themselves.

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Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people's money. It's quite a characteristic of them.

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There's no such thing as society.

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The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

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I will not stagger from expedient to expedient.

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Life in a free society...is heaven on earth to life in a socialist society such as Russia.

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Those who imagine that a politician would make a better figurehead than a hereditary monarch might perhaps make the acquaintance of more politicians.

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...Conservatives have excellent credentials to speak about human rights. By our efforts, and with precious little help from self-styled liberals, we were largely responsible for securing liberty for a substantial share of the world's population and defending it for most of the rest.

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[On being asked how many Mrs. Thatchers there were:] Oh, three at least. There is the intellectual one, the intuitive one and the one at home.

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