What we should grasp, however, from the lessons of European history is that, first, there is nothing necessarily benevolent about programmes of European integration; second, the desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom; and third, European unity has been tried before, and the outcome was far from happy.
Margaret ThatcherIf someone is confronting our essential liberties, if someone is inflicting injuries and harm, by God I'll confront them!
Margaret ThatcherDo you think you would ever have heard of Christianity if the Apostles had gone out and said, ‘I believe in consensus?’
Margaret Thatcher