Margaret Thatcher Quotes About Mistakes

Quotes about: Mistakes

• It is always important in matters of high politics to know what you do not know. Those who think they know, but are mistaken, and act upon their mistakes, are the most dangerous people to have in charge.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Mistake, Thinking, People

  "Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World" by Margaret Thatcher, New York: HarperCollins, (p. 104), 2002.

• We who are living in the west today are fortunate. Freedom has been bequeathed to us. We have not had to carve it out of nothing; we have not had to pay for it with our lives. But it would be a grave mistake to think that freedom requires nothing of us. Each of us has to earn freedom anew in order to possess it. We do so not just for our own sake, but for the sake of our children, so that they may build a better future that will sustain over the world the responsibilities and blessings of freedom.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Children, Mistake, Responsibility

• We want a society in which we are free to make choices, to make mistakes, to be generous and compassionate. That is what we mean by a moral society - not a society in which the State is responsible for everything, and no one is responsible for the State.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Mistake, Mean, Compassion

  1977 Speech, Zurich University, 14 Mar.

• We must not fall into the mistake of thinking that it is America that trades with Taiwan or Europe that trades with Asia. The truth is that it is American companies that trade with Taiwanese companies.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Mistake, Fall, Thinking

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