Margaret Thatcher Quotes - Page 17

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• We very much hope that as we get growth that we can reduce the burden of taxation, that we can reduce income tax and increase the amount of genuine free enterprise and business enterprise... This is going... toward the restoration of the personal responsibility, the independence, with every man a property owner, every man a capitalist.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Wisdom, Responsibility, Men

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• We need a free economy not only for the renewed material prosperity it will bring, but because it is indispensable to individual freedom, human dignity and to a more just, more honest society.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Needs, Dignity, Honest

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• If a woman like Eva Peron with no ideals can get that far, think how far I can go with the ideals that I have.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Thinking, Eva Peron, Ideals

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

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• I have made it quite clear that a unified Ireland was one solution that is out. A second solution was a confederation of two states. That is out. A third solution was joint authority. That is out-that is a derogation of sovereignty.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Two, Government, Politics

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• I still want to play in it, maybe when I absolutely think I have no chance of playing in it my view might change but I doubt it because it just doesn't interest me.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Change, Thinking, Play

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• This business of the working class is on its way out I think. After all, aren't I working class? I work jolly hard, I can tell you.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Thinking, Class, Way

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

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• John Gummer just did not have the political clout or credibility to rally the troops. I had appointed him as a sort of nightwatchman, but he seemed to have to sleep on the job.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Jobs, Sleep, Political

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

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• I am always on the job.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Jobs

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

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• Naturally, it is with some temerity that the pupil speaks before the master, because you know more about the Common Market than anybody.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Common, Speak, Pupils

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

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• A democratic Europe of nation states could be a force for liberty, enterprise and open trade. But, if creating a United States of Europe overrides these goals, the new Europe will be one of subsidy and protection

  Margaret Thatcher

  Europe, Creating, Goal

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

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• I cannot imagine how any diplomat, or any dramatist, could improve on (Ronald Reagan's) words to Mikhail Gorbachev at the Geneva summit: 'Let me tell you why it is we distrust you.' Those words are candid and tough and they cannot have been easy to hear. But they are also a clear invitation to a new beginning and a new relationship that would be rooted in trust.

  Margaret Thatcher

  New Beginnings, New Relationship, Diplomats

  Remarks on the Passing of Ronald Reagan, tape delivered on 11 June 2004

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• I think, historically, the term 'Thatcherism' will be seen as a compliment.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Thinking, Compliment, Term

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• I owe nothing to Women's Lib.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Feminism, Stewardship

  1974 Quoted in the Observer,1 Dec.

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• If... many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.

  Margaret Thatcher

  War, People, Liberty

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• No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn't want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Jobs, Giving, Want

  Interview, Sunday Telegraph (London), 26 Oct. 1969

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• Had I faltered we would have neither the success nor the international reputation we have. Yet when a woman is strong she is strident. If a man is strong, he's a good guy.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Strong, Independent, Men

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• There might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Jobs, Technology, Years

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• 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 pressures, particularly those exerted from within an alliance, can result in the failure to follow actions through and so leave future problems unresolved.

  Margaret Thatcher

  War, Important, Alliances

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• When all the objectives of government include the achievement of equality - other than equality before the law - that government poses a threat to liberty.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Government, Law, Achievement

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• I'm also very much aware that it is you who brought democracy to Chile, you set up a constitution suitable for democracy, you put it into effect, elections were held, and then, in accordance with the result, you stepped down.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Democracy, Conservative, Election

  "Thatcher visits her old friend Pinochet", www.theguardian.com. March 26, 1999.

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• I hate extremes of any kind. Communism [seeks] the domination of the state over the individual... All my life I have stood against banning Communism or other extremist organisations because, if you do that, they go underground and it gives them an excitement that they don't get if they are allowed to pursue their policies openly. We'll beat them into the ground on argument...

  Margaret Thatcher

  Hate, War, Giving

  "Hornsey Journal" Interview with Robert Eddison and Barry St John Nevill, www.margaretthatcher.org. April 21, 1978.

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• Hope is no basis for a defense policy.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Defense, Cold War, Bases

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• Yes, the Commission wants to increase its powers, Yes, it is a non-elected body and I do not want the Commission to increase its powers at the expense of the House, so of course we differ. The President of the Commission, Mr Delors, said at a press conference the other day that he wanted the European Parliament to be the democratic body of the Community. He wanted the Commission to be the Executive and he wanted the Council of Ministers to be the Senate. No! No! No!

  Margaret Thatcher

  Europe, House, Community

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

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• I think our support for the EEC has been very half-hearted. You really cannot join any group of nations and spend all your time criticising it. The EEC is free Europe getting together. Had we had some vision like that after the first world war , we might never had the second ... my son does not have to go and fight as his father had to fight. Surely that is the most valuable thing of all, the reason for keeping Europe together.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Father, War, Fighting

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

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• All attempts to destroy democracy by terrorism will fail. It must be business as usual.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Democracy, Usual, Terrorism

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

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