Quotes about politics
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Margaret Thatcher1925–2013Press Conference for American correspondents in London (25 June 1980), defending monetarist policy.We shall have to learn again to be one nation, or one day we shall be no nation.
Margaret Thatcher1925–2013Conservative Party television broadcast “Winter of Discontent” (17 January 1979)- Margaret Thatcher1925–2013Article for Daily Telegraph (“My Kind of Tory Party”) (30 January 1975)
- Margaret Thatcher1925–2013Interview for Woman’s Own (23 September 1987)
The record is clear, printing money doesn’t create jobs, it only creates more inflation.
Margaret Thatcher1925–2013Speech to Conservative Trade Unionists (Annual Conference) (1 November 1980)- Margaret Thatcher1925–2013Speech to Conservative Central Council (15 March 1986)
- Margaret Thatcher1925–2013TV Interview for BBC (17 December 1984)
- Margaret Thatcher1925–2013Speech at Monash University (1981 Sir Robert Menzies Lecture) (6 October 1981)
Economics are the method; the object is to change the heart and soul.
Margaret Thatcher1925–2013Interview for The Sunday Times (1 May 1981)- Margaret Thatcher1925–2013Speech to the Conservative Party Conference, Brighton (10 October 1980)
Hunter S. Thompson1937–2005Comment on the protest activity at the 1968 Democratic National Convention, as quoted in “The Doctor Is In” by Curtis Wilkie, in The Boston Globe Magazine (7 February 1988), p. 16Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one.
Henry David Thoreau1817–1862Life Without Principle (1863), p. 494
Alexis de Tocqueville1805–1859Democracy in America, Volume I (1835), Chapter XIII.The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.
Alexis de Tocqueville1805–1859France Before The Consulate, Chapter I: “How the Republic was ready to accept a master”, in Memoir, Letters, and Remains, Vol I (1862), p. 266