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Margaret Thatcher Inspirational Quotes (279)

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When will Labour learn that you cannot build Jerusalem in Brussels.
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Marxists get up early to further their cause. We must get up even earlier to defend our freedom.
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Consensus is the negation of leadership.
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Let me give you my vision: A man's right to work as he will, to spend what he earns, to own property, to have the state as servant and not as master. These are the British inheritance. They are the essence of a free country, and on that freedom all of our other freedoms depend.
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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.
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There are always dangers about. Therefore you must always keep your defences strong.
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The spirit of envy can destroy it can never build.
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Dictators can be deterred, they can be crushed - but they can never be appeased.
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No Western nation has to build a wall round itself to keep its people in.
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The mission of this government is much more than the promotion of economic progress. It is to renew the spirit and solidarity of the nation.
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I am not hard - I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded
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Our judgement is that the presence of the Royal Marines garrison is sufficient deterrent against any possible aggression.
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If your only opportunity is to be equal then it is not opportunity.
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I don't know what I would do without Whitelaw. Everyone should have a Willy.
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For the Christian there can be no social or political panaceas, no easy escapes from personal responsibility achieved by collectivising guilt or virtue. The true ends of temporal life lie beyond it, and, though the tyrannical State may diminish virtue, the benevolent State cannot procure it.
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We shall take whatever action is necessary to contain the growth of the money supply. The government, unlike so many of its predecessors, will face up to economic realities.
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Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
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If you have a sense of purpose and a sense of direction, I believe people will follow you. Democracy isn't just about deducing what the people want. Democracy is leading the people as well.
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It is no exaggeration to describe plain English as a fundamental tool of government.
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A man who, beyond the age of 26, finds himself on a bus can count himself as a failure.
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We need to create a mood where it is everywhere thought morally right for as many people as possible to acquire capital.
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If we are safe today, it is because America has stood with us. If we are to remain safe tomorrow, it will be because America remains powerful and self-confident. When, therefore, the Americans face difficulties, we need to say to them more clearly: We are with you.
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You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.
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For Dicey, writing in 1885, and for me reading him some seventy years later, the rule of law still had a very English, or at least Anglo-Saxon, feel to it. It was later, through Hayek's masterpieces The Constitution of Liberty and Law, Legislation and Liberty that I really came to think this principle as having wider application.
Margaret Thatcher
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