"When you stop a dictator, there are..." - Quote by Margaret Thatcher
When you stop a dictator, there are always risks. But there are greater risks in not stopping a dictator.
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“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... To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukemia with leeches.”
“The spirit of envy can destroy; it can never build.”
“We weren't getting a fair deal on the budget and I wasn't going to have it. There's a great strand of equity and fairness in the British people - this is our characteristic. There's not a strand of equity and fairness in Europe - they're out to get as much as they can. That's one of those enormous differences. So I tackled it on that basis.”
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“The first concern of any dictatorship is, consequently, to subjugate both labor and culture.”
“I tell the American people solemnly that the United States will never survive as a happy and fertile oasis of liberty surrounded by a cruel desert of dictatorship.”
“Napoleon was the best method. Dissolved all representative institutions and it decided who should rule the state with him.”