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From Quotes by Margaret Thatcher
- We do not achieve happiness or salvation in isolation from each other but as members of society
- During my lifetime most of the problems the world has faced have come, in one fashion or other, from mainland Europe, and the solutions from…
- 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…
- People from my sort of background needed grammar schools to compete with children from privileged homes like Shirley Williams and Anthony Wedgwood Benn.
- It is important not to allow ever wider coalition-building to become an end in itself. As we saw in the Gulf War of 1990, international…
- The application of collective guilt, running from one generation to another, is a dangerous doctrine which would leave few modern nations unscathed.
- It is recorded how towards the end of the eighteenth century a Muslim visitor to England was taken to see the House of Commons at…
- Countries trade with each other - or to be more precise people buy and sell from each other across frontiers - because that is the…
- What we should grasp, however, from the lessons of European history is that, first, there is nothing necessarily benevolent about programmes of European integration; second,…
- Adam Smith's 'invisible hand' is not above sudden, disturbing, movements. Since its inception, capitalism has known slumps and recessions, bubble and froth; no one has…
- In the Conservative Party we have no truck with outmoded Marxist doctrine about class warfare. For us it is not who you are, who your…
- Communist regimes were not some unfortunate aberration, some historical deviation from a socialist ideal. They were the ultimate expression, unconstrained by democratic and electoral pressures,…
- But the whole history of America is quite different from Europe. People went there to get away from the intolerance and constraints of life in…
- Socialism's results have ranged between the merely shabby and the truly catastrophic - poverty, strife, oppression and, on the killing fields of communism, the deaths…
- I came to office with one deliberate intent: to change Britain from a dependent to a self-reliant society -- from a give-it-to-me, to a do-it-yourself…
- My job is to stop Britain from going red.
- 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…
- ...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…
- The battle for women's rights has largely been won. The days when they were demanded and discussed in strident tones should be gone forever. I…
- Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd.
- Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
- Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.
- Law and order is a social service. Crime and the fear which the threat of crime induces can paralyse whole communities, keep lonely and vulnerable…
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