"There's no such thing as entitlement, unless someone has first met an obligation."
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"I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it."
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"In my view dictators do not surrender. They have to be well and truly defeated."
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"The spirit of the South Atlantic was the spirit of Britain at her best. It has been said that we surprised the world, that British patriotism was rediscovered in those spring days. It was never really lost. But it would be no bad thing if the feeling that swept the country then were to continue to inspire us. For if there was any doubt about the determination of the British people it was removed by the men and women who, a few months ago, brought a renewed sense of pride and self-respect to our country."
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"Those who imagine that a politician would make a better figurehead than a hereditary monarch might perhaps make the acquaintance of more politicians."
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"Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story."
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"I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver."
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"There's no such thing as society."
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"There is nothing inevitable about rising unemployment."
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"When I look at him [Edward Heath] and he looks at me, I don't feel that it is a man looking at a woman. More like a woman being looked at by another woman."
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"I applaud strong government, but not overweening government sustained by cronies, ciphers and a personality cult."
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"I do wish I had brought my cheque book. I don't believe in credit cards."
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"Isn't a policy of conventional weapons, with the terrible bombs raining down, with the missiles, with the aircraft, with the submarines, with the torpedoes, with the tanks, with chemical weapons - isn't that based on the possibility of threat?"
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"I am an ally of the United States. We believe the same things, we believe passionately in the same battle of ideas, we will defend them to the hilt. Never try to separate me from them."
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"I hope we shall see more ande more women combining marriage and a career. Prejudice against this dual role is not confined to men. I regret to say, it comes from our own sex."
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"I don't want to fight any wars; if you can get them off before we get there, you do it, but off they go."
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"... when a big man has a big idea I never like to stand in his way."
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"We believe in a free Europe, not a standardised Europe. Diminish that variety within the member states, and you impoverish the whole Community. We insist that the institutions of the European Community are managed so that they increase the liberty of the individual throughout the continent. These institutions must not be permitted to dwindle into bureaucracy. Whenever they fail to enlarge freedom the institutions should be criticised and the balance restored."
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"I'll stay until I'm tired of it. So long as Britain needs me, I shall never be tired of it."
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"I couldn't live without work. That's what makes me so sympathetic towards those people who are unemployed. I don't know how they live without working."
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