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The Downing Street Years quotes

Margaret Thatcher

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“We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain only to see them reimposed at a European level, with a European super-state exercising a new dominance from Brussels.” Margaret Thatcher, The Downing Street Years
“What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner ‘I stand for consensus’?” Margaret Thatcher, The Downing Street Years
“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...” Margaret Thatcher, The Downing Street Years
“There are individual men and women, and there are families” Margaret Thatcher, The Downing Street Years
“To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.” Margaret Thatcher, The Downing Street Years
“But nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.” Margaret Thatcher, The Downing Street Years
“Human rights did not begin with the French Revolution…” Margaret Thatcher, The Downing Street Years
“No theory of government was ever given a fairer test or a more prolonged experiment in a democratic country than democratic socialism received in Britain. Yet it was a miserable failure in every respect.” Margaret Thatcher, The Downing Street Years
“This was no time to go wobbly.” Margaret Thatcher, The Downing Street Years
“Being prime minister is a lonely job.” Margaret Thatcher, The Downing Street Years
“In a cold as in a hot war it pays to know the enemy — not least because at some time in the future you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.” Margaret Thatcher, The Downing Street Years
“Where there is error, may we bring truth. Where there is doubt, may we bring faith. And where there is despair, may we bring hope.” Margaret Thatcher, The Downing Street Years

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