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" Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides. "

Margaret Thatcher

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" A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us. "

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" Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true. "

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" I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near. "

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" You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure. "

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" Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy. "

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" I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say. "

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" I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it. "

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

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" Ought we not to ask the media to agree among themselves a voluntary code of conduct, under which they would not say or show anything which could assist the terrorists' morale or their cause while the hijack lasted. "

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" I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election. "

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" There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families. "

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" It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs. "

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" Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story. "

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" No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well. "

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" Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd. "

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" To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches. "

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" If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman. "

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" If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you. "

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" Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction. "

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" People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top. "

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

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" I owe nothing to Women's Lib. "

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" This lady is not for turning. "

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" Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus. "

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" It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake. "

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" I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left. "

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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. "

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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. "

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

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