"When you hold back the successful, you penalize those who need help."
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"You cannot make an omelet without breaking some balls"
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"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?"
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"My job is to stop Britain from going red."
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"If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you."
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"I might have preferred iron - but bronze will do. It won't rust. This time I hope, the head will stay on."
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"Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus."
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"In a system of free trade and free markets poor countries - and poor people - are not poor because others are rich. Indeed, if others became less rich the poor would in all probability become still poorer."
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"Why in the world anyone in America is allowing another language (other than English) to be his first... I don't know"
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"Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends." ~ (1925- ), English political leader."
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"It's the Labour Government that have brought us record peacetime taxation. They've got the usual Socialist disease - they've run out of other people's money."
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"I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election."
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"The desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom."
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"The larger the slice taken by government, the smaller the cake available for everyone."
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"Ronald Reagan won the Cold War without firing a shot."
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"Good Conservatives always pay their bills. And on time. Not like the Socialists who run up other people's bills."
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"When you stop a dictator, there are always risks. But there are greater risks in not stopping a dictator."
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"There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty."
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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."
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"We want a society in which we are free to make choices, to make mistakes, to be generous and compassionate. That is what we mean by a moral society - not a society in which the State is responsible for everything, and no one is responsible for the State."
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