"I believe in the acceptance of personal..." - Quote by Margaret Thatcher
I believe in the acceptance of personal responsibility, freedom of choice, and the British Empire, which took freedom and the rule of law to countries which would never have known it otherwise.
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“In my lifetime all our problems have come from mainland Europe and all the solutions have come from the English-speaking nations across the world.”
“All attempts to destroy democracy by terrorism will fail. It must be business as usual.”
“Our children need strong families raising them with sturdy virtues, not to be smothered in the cold arms of the state.”
More on Responsibility
“Although I don't have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.”
“You perceive now, my friends, what your general or abstract duty is as teachers. Although you have to generate in your pupils a large stock of ideas, any one of which may be inhibitory, yet you must also see to it that no habitual hesitancy or paralysis of the will ensues, and that the pupil still retains his power of vigorous action.”
“So the question rises: How much liberty can you get away with? Well, you get no more liberty than you give!”
More on Freedom
“The humans live in time but our Enemy destines them to eternity. He therefore, I believe, wants them to attend chiefly to two things, to eternity itself, and to that point of time which they call the Present. For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity. Of the present moment, and of it only, humans have an experience analogous to the experience which our Enemy has of reality of whole; in it alone freedom and actuality are offered to them.”
“The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.”
“The history of liberty is a history of resistance.”