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Thus I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence, which is a noble thing.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Higher energy prices are requiring industry and commerce to examine the costs and efficiency of energy use.
There is no more striking illustration of the immobility of British institutions than the House of Commons.
No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.
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.
Retreat might give us a moment of respite but years of repentance at our weakness would, I believe, follow.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.
You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves.
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
Can a nation remain healthy, can all nations draw together in a world whose brightest stars are film stars?
There is no merit in putting off a war for a year if, when it comes, it is far worse or much harder to win.
We are plunged in a long and grievous struggle. But all will come right if we all work together to the end.
I let the argument rip healthily between the departments. This is a very good way to finding out the truth.
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
I think fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers - we should look at what young people are saying to us.
I read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact that they are nearly always conflicting.
It isn't those who always addressing each other as comrade who necessarily show the most brotherly feelings.
The Prime Minister is stealing our clothes but he is going to look pretty ridiculous walking around in mine.
A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.
Churchill says the Government had to choose between war and shame. They chose shame. They will get war, too.
The acts we engage in for appeasment today, we will have to remedy at far greater cost and remorse tomorrow.
Elections exist for the sake of the House of Commons and not the House of Commons for the sake of elections.
I am not a bit afraid of Siegfried Sassoon. That man can think. I am afraid only of people who cannot think.
If you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political party, you're half-way to a dictatorship.
I love Scotland; I love the NHS. I was born into the NHS; I grew up in the NHS. My family grew up in the NHS.
After a long life I have come to the conclusion that when all the Establishment is united it is always wrong.
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
People are really rather afraid that this country might be rather swamped by people with a different culture.
[When asked how it felt to be a female prime minister:] I don't know: I've never experienced the alternative.
We shall never be able to effect physical disarmament until we have succeeded in effecting moral disarmament.
The distinction of being without an honour is becoming a rare and valuable one and should not become extinct.
Our new world rests on order. The danger is disorder. And in today's world, it can now spread like contagion.
Nothing is more important to England's arrangements for the World Cup than the state of David Beckham's foot.
There is a forgotten, nay almost forbidden word, which means more to me than any other. That word is England.
No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
Most of the significant contributions that have been made to society have been made by people who were tired.
He has to conceal what he would most wish to make public, and make public what he would most wish to conceal.
Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.
...Have the stresses of war been as bad to you personally as carrying through the policy of Collective Farms?
We shall fight in parking lots, we shall fight in empty fields and on wide streets, we shall never surrender.
I did maths for a year at university. I don't think I was very good at it. And some people would say it shows.
In 2005 we have a once in a generation opportunity to deliver a modern Marshall plan for the developing world.
Any leader has to have a certain amount of steel in them, so I am not that put out being called the Iron Lady.
We should see to it that our people are steeped in a real knowledge and understanding of our national culture.
Being powerful is a lot like being a woman: If you have to tell someone that you are, invariably, you are not.
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.
The public think the politicians don't know or care about their lives; and the politicians feel misunderstood.
Surely we have the wit and will to develop economically without despoiling the very environment we depend upon