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There's no such thing as entitlement, unless someone has first met an obligation.

There's no such thing as entitlement, unless someone has first met an obligation.

Margaret Thatcher
Firsts, Entitlement, Mets
"Tories' charity love-in hits new heights" by Alison Benjamin, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2008.

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

Margaret Thatcher
Patience, Perseverance, Powerful
In Observer 4 Apr. 1989

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

Margaret Thatcher
Trying, Leeches, Disease
"The Downing Street Years". Book by Margaret Thatcher, October 18, 1993.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

Margaret Thatcher
Inspirational, Motivational, Positive
1987 Interview, ABC TV, 18 Mar.

No Western nation has to build a wall round itself to keep its people in.

Margaret Thatcher
Wall, War, People
Margaret Thatcher (1997). “The collected speeches of Margaret Thatcher”, HarperCollins

I went to Oxford University - but I've never let that hold me back.

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

I am not a consensus politician. Im a conviction politician.

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

Ideally, when Christians meet, as Christians do, to take counsel together, their purpose is not ( or should not be) to ascertain what is the mind of the majority but what is the mind of the Holy Spirit - something which may be quite different.

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

I am an undiluted admirer of American values and the American dream and I believe they will continue to inspire not just the people of the United States but millions across the face of the globe.

Margaret Thatcher
Dream, Believe, People
Margaret Thatcher (1997). “The collected speeches of Margaret Thatcher”, HarperCollins

Ronald Reagan won the Cold War without firing a shot.

Margaret Thatcher
War, Cold, Shots
First Clare Booth Luce Lecture, www.margaretthatcher.org. September 23, 1991.

Our children need strong families raising them with sturdy virtues, not to be smothered in the cold arms of the state.

Margaret Thatcher
Strong, Children, Needs

We had to fight the enemy without in the Falklands. We always have to be aware of the enemy within, which is much more difficult to fight and more dangerous to liberty.

Margaret Thatcher
Fighting, Enemy, Liberty
"National archives: Margaret Thatcher wanted to crush power of trade unions" by Alan Travis, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2013.

In the background lurks the scourge of international terrorism. There are people exercising power in a few countries and leading political factions in others who seem to be moved by narrow, brutal and irrational impulses. Their view of their own self-interest is so blinkered as to leave no space for purely human values, for peaceful negotiation or for economic advancement. They are bent on the destruction of the established order and of civilised ways of doing business. They must never be allowed to succeed.

Margaret Thatcher
Country, Exercise, Self

That is what capitalism is: a system that brings wealth to the many, not just the few.

Margaret Thatcher
Wealth, Capitalism

Terrorism thrives on a free society. The terrorist uses the feelings in a free society to sap the will of civilization to resist. If the terrorist succeeds, he has won and the whole of free society has lost.

Margaret Thatcher
Civilization, Feelings, Sap
Margaret Thatcher (1997). “The collected speeches of Margaret Thatcher”, HarperCollins

If it's me against 48, I feel sorry for the 48.

Margaret Thatcher
Sorry, Feels, Ifs

We who are living in the west today are fortunate. Freedom has been bequeathed to us. We have not had to carve it out of nothing; we have not had to pay for it with our lives. But it would be a grave mistake to think that freedom requires nothing of us. Each of us has to earn freedom anew in order to possess it. We do so not just for our own sake, but for the sake of our children, so that they may build a better future that will sustain over the world the responsibilities and blessings of freedom.

Margaret Thatcher
Children, Mistake, Responsibility

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

Margaret Thatcher
Military, History, Nuclear Missiles
Margaret Thatcher's speech at Soviet official banquet at St George's Halls, The Kremlin, www.margaretthatcher.org. March 30, 1987.

It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.

Margaret Thatcher
Friendship, Opportunity, Enemy

The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians.

Margaret Thatcher
History, Politician, Hindsight

The choice facing the nation is between two totally different ways of life. 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 and bring together men and women from all walks of life who share a belief in freedom.

Margaret Thatcher
Dark, Fighting, Men
Margaret Thatcher's speech in Perth, Scotland (May 13, 1983), as quoted in "British Vote Campaign Gets Off to Angry Start" in New York Times, May 14, 1983.

Women have plenty of roles in which they can serve with distinction: some of us even run countries. But generally we are better at wielding the handbag than the bayonet.

Margaret Thatcher
Country, Running, Roles
"Marilyn Monroe and Margaret Thatcher: the iron ladies" by Sarah Churchwell, www.theguardian.com. December 9, 2011.

The desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom.

Margaret Thatcher
Desire, Economics, Achieve
"Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World" by Margaret Thatcher, New York: HarperCollins, (p. 327), 2002.

All corporatism - even when practised in societies where hard work, enterprise and cooperation are as highly valued as in Korea - encourages inflexibility, discourages individual accountability, and risks magnifying errors by concealing them.

Margaret Thatcher
Hard Work, Errors, Korea
"Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World". Book by Margaret Thatcher, April 16, 2002.

...Conservatives have excellent credentials to speak about human rights. By our efforts, and with precious little help from self-styled liberals, we were largely responsible for securing liberty for a substantial share of the world's population and defending it for most of the rest.

Margaret Thatcher
Rights, Self, Effort

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