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Margaret Thatcher1925–2013

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.

Margaret Thatcher on war and peace

Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World (2002), p. 50

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