A Quote by Margaret Thatcher

I have never knowingly made a non-controversial speech in my life. — © Margaret Thatcher
I have never knowingly made a non-controversial speech in my life.
I can imagine Iceland becoming a good place to run a controversial Web site. But... Iceland may find itself forced to defend controversial speech.
I think I have gone through my entire public career never telling a lie. I have made mistakes but I never knowingly lied.
All I've wanted to be is someone people look up to. It's funny - everyone says I'm controversial. I've never worked out what it is about me that's controversial. I've never had a DUI; I've never been in a brawl; you've never seen photos of me walking out of clubs at 5 A.M.
I've never intended to be controversial, but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is.
I've never intended to be controversial but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is.
I've never tried to be controversial. The truth is controversial enough.
I'd be very controversial if I said why, and I don't do controversial anymore. That's too passé. So last year. Being controversial is boring now.
I've always told the truth. I've often been wrong - but I've never knowingly lied. Not in public life. Because I don't see the need to.
We should say to private employers, if you knowingly hire illegal immigrants, there's going to be a consequence. I underline the word 'knowingly.' And you make available a system like E-Verify.
I do not remember in my whole life I ever willfully misrepresented anything to anybody at any time. I have never knowingly had connection with a fraudulent scheme.
We don't have the freedom of speech to talk about the weather. We have the first amendment so we can say some very controversial things.
Without free speech no search for Truth is possible; without free speech no discovery of Truth is useful; without free speech progress is checked, and the nations no longer march forward towards the nobler life which the future holds for man. Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech. The abuse dies in a day; but the denial stays the life of the people and entombs the hope of the race.
It's always easy to get people to condemn threats to free speech when the speech being threatened is speech that they like. It's much more difficult to induce support for free speech rights when the speech being punished is speech they find repellent.
Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection.
I never prepare a speech. I never think when I give a speech, except for "don't embarrass yourself or others," meaning "remember the names of the people you have to thank."
I've never made a film using dialogue or speech.
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