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Marxists get up early in the morning to further their cause. We must get up even earlier to defend our freedom.

— Margaret Thatcher

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Economics are the method; the object is to change the heart and soul.

Socialists cry "Power to the people", and raise the clenched fist as they say it. We all know what they really mean—power over people, power to the State.

For every idealistic peacemaker willing to renounce his self-defence in favour of a weapons-free world, there is at least one warmaker anxious to exploit the other's good intentions.

Peace, freedom and justice are only to be found where people are prepared to defend them.

We must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.

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