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Quotes from The Path To Power — Margaret Thatcher

1925–2013 England

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12 quotes

You cannot build a great nation or brotherhood of man by spreading envy or hatred.

The Path To Power (1995)

When you stop selecting by ability you have to select according to some other inevitably less satisfactory criterion.

The Path To Power (1995)

The main contribution one can make as a student to one's country in peace or wartime is to study hard and effectively.

The Path To Power (1995)

Our policy is not built on envy or hatred, but on liberty for the individual man or woman.

The Path To Power (1995)

It is not our policy to suppress success.

The Path To Power (1995)

Our opponents like to try and make you believe that Conservatism is a privilege of the few. But Conservatism conserves all that is great and best in our national heritage.

The Path To Power (1995)

We all see these great calamities with different eyes, and so their impact upon us is different.

The Path To Power (1995)

Everyone had something unique to offer in life and their responsibility was to develop those gifts - and heroes come from all backgrounds.

The Path To Power (1995)

Many senior policemen put greater emphasis on maintaining 'order' than on upholding the law. In practice that meant failing to uphold the rights of individuals against the rule of the mob.

The Path To Power (1995)

Nazism (national Socialism) and communism (international socialism) were but two sides of the same coin.

The Path To Power (1995)

Communism was the regime for the privileged elite, capitalism the creed for the common man.

The Path To Power (1995)

Those who use this country's great tradition of freedom of speech should not seek to deny that same freedom to others, especially to those who, like Mr Powell, spent their war years in distinguished service in the Forces.

The Path To Power (1995)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Margaret Thatcher (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.