"The desire to achieve grand utopian plans..." - Quote by Margaret Thatcher
The desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom.
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“Let us never forget this fundamental truth: The State has no source of money other than the money people themselves earn.”
“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.”
“I don't think there will be a woman Prime Minister in my lifetime.”
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“People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both.”
“I devote myself to what I love the most, and for this very reason I hesitate to designate it with lofty words: I do not want to risk believing that it is a sublime compulsion, a law, which I obey: I love what I love the most too much to wish to appear to it as one compelled.”
“I believe that it would be almost impossible to find anywhere in America a black man who has lived further down in the mud of human society than I have; or a black man who has been any more ignorant than I have; or a black man who has suffered more anguish during his life than I have. But it is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest joy can come; it is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come.”