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No generation has a free hold on this earth. All we have is a life tenancy-with a full repairing lease.

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I might have preferred iron - but bronze will do. It won't rust. This time I hope, the head will stay on.

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The lesson is clear. Inflation devalues us all.

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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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I have never knowingly made a non-controversial speech in my life.

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If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

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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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We do not have a freehold on the earth, only a full repairing lease

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Just rejoice at the news and congratulate our armed forces and the Marines. Rejoice!

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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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I have made it quite clear that a unified Ireland was one solution that is out. A second solution was a confederation of two states. That is out. A third solution was joint authority. That is out-that is a derogation of sovereignty.

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Dictators can be deterred, they can be crushed - but they can never be appeased.

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Most women defend themselves. It is the female of the species-it is the tigress and lioness in you which tends to defend when attacked.

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When all the objectives of government include the achievement of equality - other than equality before the law - that government poses a threat to liberty.

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There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

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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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The fact that seasoned politicians can say such ridiculous things - and get away with it - illustrates the degree to which the new dogma... has swept through the left-of-centre governing classes.

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Well, there's a lot to react against![in response to the accusation that she was a reactionary]

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I do not believe it is in the character of the British people to begrudge the lion's share to those who have genuinely played the lion's part. They are ready to recognise that those who create the wealth - and I mean not only material but intellectual wealth - enrich the whole nation.

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The election of a man committed to the cause of freedom and the renewal of America's strength has given encouragement to all those who love liberty.

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