"You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure."
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"Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides."
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"Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth."
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"I don't think there will be a woman Prime Minister in my lifetime."
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"We will stand on principle or we will not stand at all."
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"I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air."
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"The feminists hate me, don't they? And I don't blame them. For I hate feminism. It is poison."
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"A man may climb Everest for himself, but at the summit he plants his country's flag."
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"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."
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"One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex."
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"The people of the Falkland Islands, like the people of the United Kingdom, are an island race. They are few in number but they have the right to live in peace, to choose their own way of life and to determine their own allegiance. They way of life is British; their allegiance is to the Crown. It is the wish of the British people and the duty of Her Majesty's Government to do everything that we can to uphold that right. That will be our hope and our endeavour, and, I believe, the resolve, of every Member of this House."
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"There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families."
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"Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's a day you've had everything to do and you've done it."
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"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."
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"Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan."
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"Freedom is not synonymous with an easy life. ... There are many difficult things about freedom: It does not give you safety, it creates moral dilemmas for you; it requires self-discipline; it imposes great responsibilities; but such is the nature of Man and in such consists his glory and salvation."
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"A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us."
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"No Western nation has to build a wall round itself to keep its people in."
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"Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy."
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"I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph."
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