(Not) even the US can impose peace: it has to be genuinely accepted by both parties involved.
Margaret ThatcherAmerica, my friends, is the only country in the world actually founded on liberty - the only one. People went to America to be free.
Margaret ThatcherCommunist regimes were not some unfortunate aberration, some historical deviation from a socialist ideal. They were the ultimate expression, unconstrained by democratic and electoral pressures, of what socialism is all about. ... In short, the state [is] everything and the individual nothing.
Margaret ThatcherWhen all the objectives of government include the achievement of equality - other than equality before the law - that government poses a threat to liberty.
Margaret Thatcher