Margaret Thatcher Quotes, War Quotes, Iron Quotes

Ladies and gentlemen, I stand before you tonight in my … chiffon evening gown, my face softly made up, my fair hair gently waved, the Iron Lady of the Western world. Me? A Cold War warrior? … Well, yes — if that is how they wish to interpret my defense of values of freedoms fundamental to our way of life.

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We do not believe that if you cut back what government does you diminish its authority. On the contrary, a government that did less, and therefore did better, would strengthen its authority.

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Major international interventions are doomed unless the US is directly or indirectly involved. But if American politicians, officials and servicemen are to be put at risk of arrest and prosecution, the United States will be most reluctant to act in order to curb aggression or prevent genocide. So the effect of the court may well be to diminish, not increase, the numbers of (in the words of the UN Secretary General) 'innocents of distant wars and conflicts'.

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The real case against socialism is not its economic inefficiency, though on all sides there is evidence of that. Much more fundamental is its basic immorality.

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We do not achieve happiness or salvation in isolation from each other but as members of society

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Do you think you would ever have heard of Christianity if the Apostles had gone out and said, ‘I believe in consensus?’

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You can present people with ideas they may come to believe in, and as a result of them they will act, if they have the opportunities. Presenting people with opportunities is part of what politics is about.

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Naturally, it is with some temerity that the pupil speaks before the master, because you know more about the Common Market than anybody.

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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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Let us never forget this fundamental truth: The State has no source of money other than the money people themselves earn.

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

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We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain, only to see them re-imposed at a European level with a European super-state exercising a new dominance from Brussels.

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I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job.

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I will not change just to court popularity.

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It's the Labour Government that have brought us record peacetime taxation. They've got the usual Socialist disease - they've run out of other people's money.

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What is right for the family is right for Britain.

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You know the critical thing with the Communist countries is Communism, which by definition consists of control by the government.

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What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner 'I stand for consensus'?

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There is no such thing as society, there is a living tapestry of men and women and the beauty of that tapestry, and the quality of our lives, will depend upon how much each of us is prepared to take responsibility for ourselves and to turn round and help, by our own efforts, those who are unfortunate. There's no such thing as entitlement unless someone has first met an obligation

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