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It's a funny old world.

Margaret Thatcher

Funny, World, Old World

Margaret Thatcher's opening remarks to the Cabinet of the United Kingdom, announcing her decision to withdraw from the Conservative leadership contest, November 22, 1990.

(Not) even the US can impose peace: it has to be genuinely accepted by both parties involved.

Margaret Thatcher

Party, Accepted, Involved

If in the 1930s nuclear weapons had been invented and the Allies had been faced by Nazi SS20s and Backfire Bombers, would it then have been morally right to have handed Hitler control of one of the most terrible weapons man has ever made? Would not that have been the one way to ensure that the thousand year Reich became exactly that? Would not unilateralism have given to Hitler the world domination he sought?

Margaret Thatcher

Men, Years, Allies

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

Margaret Thatcher

Women, Equality, Sisterhood

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

When hecklers stand up, I get a mental jump for joy. It gives me something to get my teeth into - and the audiences love it.

Margaret Thatcher

Giving, Joy, Teeth

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

The role of Ronald Reagan had been deliberately diminished; the role of the Europeans, who, with the exception of Helmet Kohl, were often keen to undermine America when it mattered, had been sanitized; and the role of Mr. Gorbachev, who had failed spectacularly in his declared objective of saving communism and the Soviet Union, had been absurdly misunderstood.

Margaret Thatcher

America, Misunderstood, Unions

"Rupert Murdoch's inaugural Margaret Thatcher lecture" by Rupert Murdoch, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2010.

Whether at home or abroad, the task of statesman is to work with human nature warts and all, and to draw on instincts and even prejudices that can be turned to good purpose. It is never to try to recreate Mankind in a new image.

Margaret Thatcher

Home, Trying, Prejudice