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"The battle for women's rights has largely been won. The days when they were demanded and discussed in strident tones should be gone forever. I hate those strident tones we hear from some Women's Libbers."
"Hope is no basis for a defense policy."
"We're saying to anyone who dares to attack us, Do not do it, you couldn't win, the result would be devastating! I think you're saying the same."
"Putting the World to Rights"
"I can't bear Britain in decline. I just can't."
"At one end of the spectrum are the terrorist gangs within our borders, and the terrorist states which finance and arm them. At the other are the hard left operating inside our system, conspiring to use union power and the apparatus of local government to break, defy and subvert the law."
"I am not hard - I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded"
"The Nuremburg trials were attacked at the time as 'victor's justice'. And this is precisely what they were - and were intended to be."
"It is in a country's interests to keep faith with its allies. States in this sense are like people. If you have a reputation for exacting favors and not returning them, the favours dry up."
"[On being asked how many Mrs. Thatchers there were:] Oh, three at least. There is the intellectual one, the intuitive one and the one at home."
"There are too few rich and too few profits."
"Countries trade with each other - or to be more precise people buy and sell from each other across frontiers - because that is the way to advance their interests. We do not need to beg people to trade with us - as long as we have something that people want, of a quality they expect and at a price they are prepared to pay."
"The virtues prized in free countries are honesty, self-discipline, a sense of responsibility to one's family, a sense of loyalty to one's employer and staff, and a pride in the quality of one's work. And these virtues only flourish in a climate of freedom."
"If a woman like Eva Peron with no ideals can get that far, think how far I can go with the ideals that I have."
"If you want to get something said in the politics tell a man. If you want to get something done in the politics tell a woman"
"In those days one advantage of being a woman was that there was a basic courtesy towards us on which we could draw - something which today's feminists have largely dissipated."
"As a motive for terror, religion has more often than not required a good deal of lubrication by lucre."
"When in August 1793 a British delegation showed their hosts a terrestrial globe, it turned into a diplomatic incident, for the Chinese were furious to see that their empire covered so little of it. For centuries the Chinese had thought of themselves as 'The Middle Kingdom', that is the centre of the civilized world. To see otherwise was a shock."
"Bribing regimes to comply with requirements which they should have acknowledged in the first place is not a process that appeals to me."
"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."