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"Margaret Thatcher was fearful of German unification because she believed that this would bring an immediate and formidable increase of economic strength to a Germany which was already the strongest economic partner in Europe."
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"It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men."
"Wounds are inspirations to make us stronger than the sun which blazes the day to be longer."
"If you walk on sunlight, bathe in moonlight, breathe in a golden air and exhale a Midas' touch; mark my words, those who exist in the shadows will try to pull you into the darkness with them. The last thing that they want is for you to see the wonder of your life because they can't see theirs."
"That which does not kill me makes me stronger."
"Your power and brilliance is the the most awesome force life could muster."
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"People know they are lacking something, they are constantly wanting some kind of spiritual guidance."
"The first two Prime Ministers whom I served, Ted Heath and Margaret Thatcher drew strikingly different lessons from the Second World War."
"It is normal for politicians in all countries to profess themselves the pupils of history, anxious to draw the right lessons from her teaching."
"But it cannot follow that because weapons and troops are now being deployed we are bound to go to war."
"Despite this lamentable lack of balance in our education I do not believe that either children or adults in my country are permeated by a widespread hostility to Germany."
"It was essentially for self defence that we went to war in Afghanistan and would go to war in Iraq."
"Men like Hitler and Stalin and their immediate lieutenants cannot plead in defence of their actions that these were justified by the accepted values of that time."
"Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves."
"But Germany will always suffer, I fear, from the intensely dramatic character of the crimes of the Third Reich."
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