Margaret Thatcher Quotes - Page 4

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• Life's greatest reward is life itself

  Margaret Thatcher

  Rewards, Serious

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• Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Powerful, Inspiration, Today

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• That nations that have gone for equality, like Communism, have neither freedom nor justice nor equality, they've the greatest inequalities of all, the privileges of the politicians are far greater compared with the ordinary folk than in any other country. The nations that have gone for freedom, justice and independence of people have still freedom and justice, and they have far more equality between their people, far more respect for each individual than the other nations. Go my way. You will get freedom and justice and much less difference between people than you do in the Soviet Union.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Country, Differences, Justice

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• The Labour Party believes in turning workers against owners; we believe in turning workers into owners.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Party, Believe, Owners

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• Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Morning, Business, Reality

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• The woman's mission is not to enhance the masculine spirit, but to express the feminine; hers is not to preserve a man-made world, but to create a human world by the infusion of the feminine element into all of its activities.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Men, Masculine And Feminine, World

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• It is your tax which pays for public spending. The government have no money of their own. There is only taxpayers' money.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Government, Pay, Spending

  Margaret Thatcher (1997). “The collected speeches of Margaret Thatcher”, HarperCollins

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  I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Believe, Evil, Interesting

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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.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Real, Fundamentals, Sides

  "The speech Donald Trump should give tonight to win it all" by Monica Crowley, www.washingtontimes.com. July 20, 2016.

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• In a system of free trade and free markets poor countries - and poor people - are not poor because others are rich. Indeed, if others became less rich the poor would in all probability become still poorer.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Country, People, Rich

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• Good Conservatives always pay their bills. And on time. Not like the Socialists who run up other people's bills.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Running, People, Debt

  "In her own words" by Julian Glover, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2002.

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

  Margaret Thatcher

  People, Ordinary, Might

  Margaret Thatcher's speech to Conservative Party conference at Winter Gardens in Blackpool, www.margaretthatcher.org. October 13, 1989.

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• Leadership is about having principles. A leader must have a vision and principles that will endure for all time and must always be true to these principles, applying them to changing circumstances

  Margaret Thatcher

  Leader, Vision, Principles

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• 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, of what socialism is all about. ... In short, the state [is] everything and the individual nothing.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Expression, Historical, Aberration

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• I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Air, Agreement, Smell

  1990 Describing the western attitude to the Gulf crisis. In The Independent, 31 Oct.

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

  Margaret Thatcher

  Abuse, Criticism, Panic

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• America, my friends, is the only country in the world actually founded on liberty - the only one. People went to America to be free.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Country, America, People

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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.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Self, Weapons, Favour

  "Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World". Book by Margaret Thatcher, April 16, 2002.

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• I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Patience, Perseverance, Powerful

  In Observer 4 Apr. 1989

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• Ideally, when Christians meet, as Christians do, to take counsel together, their purpose is not ( or should not be) to ascertain what is the mind of the majority but what is the mind of the Holy Spirit - something which may be quite different.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Christian, Mind, Together

  Margaret Thatcher (1989). “The revival of Britain: speeches on home and European affairs, 1975-1988”

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• No theory of government was ever given a fairer test or a more prolonged experiment in a democratic country than democratic socialism received in Britain. Yet it was a miserable failure in every respect... To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukemia with leeches.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Country, Democratic Socialism, Government

  "The Downing Street Years". Book by Margaret Thatcher, October 18, 1993.

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• Being democratic is not enough, a majority cannot turn what is wrong into right. In order to be considered truly free, countries must also have a deep love of liberty and an abiding respect for the rule of law.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Country, Deep Love, Order

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• I am not a consensus politician. Im a conviction politician.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Politician, Conviction, Consensus

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• That is what capitalism is: a system that brings wealth to the many, not just the few.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Wealth, Capitalism

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• The choice facing the nation is between two totally different ways of life. 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 socialism and bring together men and women from all walks of life who share a belief in freedom.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Dark, Fighting, Men

  Margaret Thatcher's speech in Perth, Scotland (May 13, 1983), as quoted in "British Vote Campaign Gets Off to Angry Start" in New York Times, May 14, 1983.

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