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What is right for the family is right for Britain.

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I was turned out because I said to Europe no, no, no. That no, no , no has now turned into yes, yes. Two yes's not three because he got the Social Chapter out and he's reserved his position on the single currency.

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I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

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The choice facing the nation is between two totally different ways of life. And what a prize we have to fight for: no less than the chance to banish from our land the dark, divisive clouds of Marxist socialism and bring together men and women from all walks of life who share a belief in freedom.

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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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As a motive for terror, religion has more often than not required a good deal of lubrication by lucre.

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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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If someone is confronting our essential liberties, if someone is inflicting injuries and harm, by God I'll confront them!

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Let us never forget this fundamental truth: the State has no source of money other than money which people earn themselves. If the State wishes to spend more it can do so only by borrowing your savings or by taxing you more. It is no good thinking that someone else will pay - that 'someone else' is you. There is no such thing as public money; there is only taxpayers' money.

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Had I faltered we would have neither the success nor the international reputation we have. Yet when a woman is strong she is strident. If a man is strong, he's a good guy.

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I have a habit of comparing the phraseology of communiques . . . noting a certain similarity of words, a certain similarity of optimism . . . and a certain similarity in the lack of practical results during the ensuring years.

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I am not a consensus politician. Im a conviction politician.

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Never flinch. Make up your own mind and do it.

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

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The Russians put guns before butter. We put just about everything before guns.

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But if Saddam had been in a position credibly to threaten America or any of its allies - or the coalition's forces - with attack by missiles with nuclear warheads, would we have gone to the Gulf at all?

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Good Conservatives always pay their bills. And on time. Not like the Socialists who run up other people's bills.

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All corporatism - even when practised in societies where hard work, enterprise and cooperation are as highly valued as in Korea - encourages inflexibility, discourages individual accountability, and risks magnifying errors by concealing them.

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The mission of this government is much more than the promotion of economic progress. It is to renew the spirit and solidarity of the nation.

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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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