Margaret Thatcher quotes - page 7

And I will go on criticising Socialism. (Margaret Thatcher)
The record is clear, printing money doesn't create jobs, it only creates more inflation. View quote
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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 super-state exercising a new dominance from Brussels. View quote
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I would say, let our children grow tall and some taller than others if they have the ability in them to do so. View quote
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Conservatism is not some abstract theory. It's a crusade to put power in the hands of ordinary people. View quote
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The Government espouses the concept of sustainable economic development. Stable prosperity can be achieved throughout the world provided the environment is nutured and safeguarded. Protecting this balance of nature is therefore one of the great challenges of the late Twentieth Century. View quote
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We will stand on principle, or we will not stand at all. View quote
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We believe that everyone has the right to be unequal but to us every human being is equally important. View quote
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Personal freedom and economic freedom are indivisible. You can't have one without the other. You can't lose one without losing the other. View quote
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We may have equality of opportunity, but if the only opportunity is to be equal, it is not opportunity. View quote
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Let me make one thing absolutely clear. The National Health Service is safe with us. (Margaret Thatcher)
The rule of law must prevail over the rule of the mob. View quote
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You can't build a secure future on dishonest money. View quote
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Our principles: freedom, independence, responsibility, choice-these and the democracy built upon them are Britain's special legacy to the world. View quote
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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. View quote
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Any leader has to have a certain amount of steel in them, so I am not that put out being called the Iron Lady. View quote
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The violence and intimidation we have seen should never have happened. It is the work of extremists. It is the enemy within. View quote
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Our policy is not built on envy or hatred, but on liberty for the individual man or woman. View quote
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I have always gone about this business on the basis that one cannot have a partnership unless there is equity among partners. Equity, of course, is historically a British concept, but I think that it is one that we bring to the [European] Community. View quote
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We Conservatives...are realists. We know that the British are one of the most creative and gifted peoples on earth. But we also know that the British are individualists, who do not respond to state direction and control. We like leadership-yes. But, above all, we like freedom. View quote
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They are arrayed against every principle for which we stand. So when the Soviet leaders jail a writer, or a priest, or a doctor or a worker, for the crime of speaking freely, it is not only for humanitarian reasons that we should be concerned. For these acts reveal a regime that is afraid of truth and liberty; it dare not allow its people to enjoy the freedoms we take for granted, and a nation that denies those freedoms to its own people will have few scruples in denying them to others. If detente is to progress then it ought to mean that the Soviet authorities relax their ruthless opposition to all forms and expressions of dissent. (Margaret Thatcher)
Don't you think that's the way to persuade more companies to come to this region and get more jobs-because I want them-for the people who are unemployed. Not always standing there as moaning minnies. View quote
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The United States has no socialist party, or no socialist party has been in power. That is the reason why it has always been the country of last resort for every currency. View quote
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Americans and Europeans alike sometimes forget how unique is the United States of America. No other nation has been created so swiftly and successfully. No other nation has been built upon an idea – the idea of liberty. No other nation has so successfully combined people of different races and nations within a single culture. Both the founding fathers of the United States and successive waves of immigrants to your country were determined to create a new identity. Whether in flight from persecution or from poverty, the huddled masses have, with few exceptions, welcomed American values, the American way of life and American opportunities. And America herself has bound them to her with powerful bonds of patriotism and pride. The European nations are not and can never be like this. They are the product of history and not of philosophy. You can construct a nation on an idea; but you cannot reconstruct a nation on the basis of one. View quote
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Our religion teaches us that every human being is unique and must play his part in working out his own salvation. So whereas socialists begin with society, and how people can be fitted in, we start with Man, whose social and economic relationship are just part of his wider existence. Because we see man as a spiritual being, we utterly reject the Marxist view, which gives pride of place to economics...The religious tradition values economic activity, how we earn our living, create wealth, but warns against obsession with it, warns against putting it above all else. Money is not an end in itself, but a means to an end. View quote
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