Margaret Thatcher Quotes, Family Quotes

What is right for the family is right for Britain.

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Women have plenty of roles in which they can serve with distinction: some of us even run countries. But generally we are better at wielding the handbag than the bayonet.

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Personal abuse is no substitute for policy. It signals panic.

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It used to be about trying to do something. Now it's about trying to be someone.

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Socialists don't like ordinary people choosing, for they might not choose Socialism.

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If your only opportunity is to be equal then it is not opportunity.

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The Government wants a peaceful settlement. But we totally reject a peaceful sell-out.

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There are dangers in consensus: it could be an attempt to satisfy people holding no particular views about anything. ... No great party can survive except on the basis of firm beliefs about what it wants to do.

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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 don't think there will be a woman Prime Minister in my lifetime.

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Occupied Falklands are the thorn in my balls

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The European single currency is bound to fail, economically, politically and indeed socially, though the timing, occasion and full consequences are all necessarily still unclear.

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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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First you win the argument, then you win the vote.

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For every idealistic peacemaker willing to renounce his self-defence in favour of a weapons-free world, there is at least one warmaker anxious to exploit the other's good intentions.

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You don't win by just being against things, you only win by being for things and making your message perfectly clear.

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We introduced the Community Charge. I still call it that. I like the Poles - I never had any intention of taxing them.

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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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All attempts to destroy democracy by terrorism will fail. It must be business as usual.

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Of course you have a duty to show the disfigurations of society as well as its more agreeable aspects. But if TV in the western world uses its freedom continually to show all that is worst in our society, while the centrally controlled television of the Communist world and the dictatorships show only what is judged advantageous to them and suppress everything else, how are the uncommitted to judge between us? How can they fail to misjudge if they view matters only through a distorted mirror?

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