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The article contains quotes from Margaret Thatcher, who was the prime minister of the UK from 1979-1990, and Orbán Viktor, who is the current [2024] prime minister of Hungary and the longest serving prime minister of the country. The quotes are inspiring, motivational, quotable or provocative quotes, and they cover a lot of topics that include Christmas, conservative thinking, democracy, education, governance, inflation, nationhood, peace, prosperity and self-awareness.

“I regard myself as Margaret Thatcher.” – Margaret Thatcher

“I’ve got a woman’s ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.” – Margaret Thatcher

“I owe nothing to women’s lib.” – Margaret Thatcher

“No one can win alone. Ever. You can only win by having a lot of people thinking and working the way you do.” – Margaret Thatcher

“You only win by being for things and making your message perfectly clear.” – Margaret Thatcher

“Yes, you might think it trite to say Christmas is a family time, but it is and it matters, because those are the milestones in our lives.” – Margaret Thatcher

“Prosperity comes not from grand conferences of economists but by countless acts of personal self-confidence and self-reliance.” – Margaret Thatcher

“Inflation destroys nations and societies as surely as invading armies do. Inflation is the parent of unemployment. It is the unseen robber of those who have saved.” – Margaret Thatcher

“Human dignity and self-respect are undermined when men and women are condemned to idleness.” – Margaret Thatcher

“When the state grows too powerful, people feel that they count for less and less. The state drains society, not only of its wealth but of initiative, of energy, the will to improve and innovate as well as to preserve what is best. Our aim is to let people feel that they count for more and more.” – Margaret Thatcher

“A great nation is the voluntary creation of its people - a people composed of men and women whose pride in themselves is founded on the knowledge of what they can give to a community of which they in turn can be proud.” – Margaret Thatcher

“The first duty of any Government is to safeguard its people against external aggression. To guarantee the survival of our way of life.” – Margaret Thatcher

“They have one great advantage over us—the battles are being fought on our territory, not theirs.” – Margaret Thatcher

“It is more vital than ever that each and every one of us within NATO should contribute his proper share to the defence of freedom.” – Margaret Thatcher

“Let’s ensure that our children will have cause to rejoice that we did not forsake their freedom.” – Margaret Thatcher

“There are many things to be done to set this nation on the road to recovery, and I do not mean economic recovery alone, but a new independence of spirit and zest for achievement.” – Margaret Thatcher

“To those waiting with bated breath for that favourite media catchphrase, the ‘U-turn’, I have only one thing to say: ‘You turn if you want to. The lady’s not for turning!’” – Margaret Thatcher

“Let us resist the blandishments of the faint hearts; let us ignore the howls and threats of the extremists; let us stand together and do our duty, and we shall not fail.” – Margaret Thatcher

“I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.” – Margaret Thatcher

“I like Mr. Gorbachev, we can do business together.” – Margaret Thatcher

“Let’s work to ensure that Hungary remains a Hungarian country.” – Orbán Viktor

“This is our country, this is our life, we have no other, so we will fight for it to the end and we will never give up!” – Orbán Viktor

“The education of Hungarian children is a matter for the Hungarian people alone.” –  Orbán Viktor

“Whoever cut themselves off from their own past cuts themselves off from their future.” – Orbán Viktor

“‘God, Homeland and Family’ – This is the watchword of conservative thinking in Hungary.” – Orbán Viktor

“Democracy is about always having alternatives to choose from.” – Orbán Viktor

“We’ve won a victory that’s big enough to be seen from the moon.” – Orbán Viktor

“Hungarians came out in record numbers to vote for #peace. Never before have so many people voted for #Fidesz in a European election [2024].” – Orbán Viktor

“Politics is not a speculative genre. It has to be built from experimental facts and experiences.” –  Orbán Viktor

“We await the great feast of the Christian world, the birth of Christ our Lord. In the silence of anticipation, we raise our gaze, dissolve from everyday worries, and the horizon of the soul widens.” – Orbán Viktor

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