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I do believe that political arrangements which are based upon violence, intimidation and theft will eventually break down - and will deserve to do so.

I do believe that political arrangements which are based upon violence, intimidation and theft will eventually break down - and will deserve to do so.

Margaret Thatcher
Believe, Political, Down And

There are significant differences between the American and European version of capitalism. The American traditiionally emphasizes the need for limited government, light regulations, low taxes and maximum labour-market flexibility. Its success has been shown above all in the ability to create new jobs, in which it is consistently more successful than Europe.

Margaret Thatcher
Jobs, Successful, Light
Margaret Thatcher (1995). “The path to power”, HarperCollins Publishers

For the Christian there can be no social or political panaceas, no easy escapes from personal responsibility achieved by collectivising guilt or virtue. The true ends of temporal life lie beyond it, and, though the tyrannical State may diminish virtue, the benevolent State cannot procure it.

Margaret Thatcher
Christian, Lying, Responsibility

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

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

Defeat? I do not recognize the meaning of the word.

Margaret Thatcher
Powerful, Iron, Defeat

I can't help to spit nails when just thinking about Trade Unions

Margaret Thatcher
Thinking, Nails, Unions

To me consensus seems to be - the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies in search of something in which no-one believes, but to which no-one objects.

Margaret Thatcher
Powerful, Believe, Principles
Margaret Thatcher's speech at 1981 Sir Robert Menzies lecture at Blackwood Hall of Monash University in Melbourne, www.margaretthatcher.org. October 6, 1981.

Constitutions have to be written on hearts, not just paper.

Margaret Thatcher
Heart, Paper, Constitution
"Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World". Book by Margaret Thatcher, April 16, 2002.

It is always important in matters of high politics to know what you do not know. Those who think they know, but are mistaken, and act upon their mistakes, are the most dangerous people to have in charge.

Margaret Thatcher
Mistake, Thinking, People
"Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World" by Margaret Thatcher, New York: HarperCollins, (p. 104), 2002.

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

Margaret Thatcher
Love, Money, Greatest Wealth
Margaret Thatcher (1997). “The collected speeches of Margaret Thatcher”, HarperCollins

I call the Conservative Party now to a crusade. Not only the Conservative Party. I appeal to all those men and women of goodwill who do not want a Marxist future for themselves or their children or their children's children. This is not just a fight about national solvency. It is a fight about the very foundations of the social order. It is a crusade not merely to put a temporary brake on Socialism, but to stop its onward march once and for all.

Margaret Thatcher
Children, Block, Party
Margaret Thatche's Speech to Conservative Party Conference, www.margaretthatcher.org. October 8, 1976.

Nevertheless, the Tenth Commandment-'Thou shalt not covet'-recognizes that making money and owning things could become selfish activities. But it is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but love of money for its own sake. The spiritual dimension comes in deciding what one does with the wealth. How could we respond to the many calls for help, or invest for the future, or support the wonderful artists or craftsmen whose work also glorifies God, unless we had first worked hard and used our talents to create the necessary wealth?

Margaret Thatcher
Spiritual, Money, Selfish
Margaret Thatcher (1997). “The collected speeches of Margaret Thatcher”, HarperCollins

Most women defend themselves. It is the female of the species-it is the tigress and lioness in you which tends to defend when attacked.

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

Socialism's results have ranged between the merely shabby and the truly catastrophic - poverty, strife, oppression and, on the killing fields of communism, the deaths this century of perhaps 100 million people. Against that doctrine was set a contrary, conservative belief in a law-governed liberty. It was this view which triumphed with the crumbling of the Berlin Wall. Since then, the Left has sought rehabilitation by distancing itself from its past.

Margaret Thatcher
Wall, Past, Views

If a Tory does not believe that private property is one of the main bulwarks of individual freedom, then he had better become a socialist and have done with it.

Margaret Thatcher
Believe, Done, Doe
Margaret Thatcher (1997). “The collected speeches of Margaret Thatcher”, HarperCollins

Object to merit and distinction, and you're setting your face against quality, independence, originality, genius against all the richness and variety of life. When you hold back the successful, you penalize those who need help.

Margaret Thatcher
Ambition, Successful, Independence
Margaret Thatcher (1997). “The collected speeches of Margaret Thatcher”, HarperCollins

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

Margaret Thatcher
Travel, Infrastructure, Economist

Yet the basic fact remains: every regulation represents a restriction of liberty, every regulation has a cost. That is why, like marriage (in the Prayer Book's words), regulation should not "be enterprised, nor taken in hand, unadvisedly, lightly, or wantonly"

Margaret Thatcher
Prayer, Book, Taken

I will not change just to court popularity.

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

There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it.

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

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

Margaret Thatcher
Liberty, Conservative, Economic
"Labour's wretched silence on child poverty" by Kevin McKenna, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2012.

Do you think you would ever have heard of Christianity if the Apostles had gone out and said, ‘I believe in consensus?’

Margaret Thatcher
Believe, Thinking, Gone

We shall take whatever action is necessary to contain the growth of the money supply. The government, unlike so many of its predecessors, will face up to economic realities.

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

Inflation is the parent of unemployment and the unseen robber of those who have saved.

Margaret Thatcher
Parent, Unseen, Unemployment

When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment, it's exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.

Margaret Thatcher
Real, Issues, Hands
On the Falklands campaign, 1982, in Chris Rose 'The Dirty Man of Europe'

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