Jollybloggerhas just quoted republican America's favorite British lady, Margaret Thatcher on sex "'There two basic facts about sex: it is very good and it is very dangerous.".

I thought I would blog through my own journey reading her book "statecraft". This book is likely to be her last word to the world which to various degrees embraced "what some call Thatcherism but what I had always regarded as common sense" (p 65)

So what does Thatcher think today?

About foreign pollicy : "Above all, foreign and security pollicy is about the use of power to acheive a states goals in its relations with other states. As a conservative I have no squeamishness about stating this. I leave it to others to try to achieve the results they seek in international affairs without reference to power. They always fail. And their failures often lead to outcomes more damaging than the pursuit of national interest through the normal means of the balance of power." (intro)

On freedom "the price of freedom can be high..it may indeed require the sacrifice of 'blood, toil, tears and sweat'....liberty must never be allowed to perish from the earth, it must endure for ever" p5 and

"We've got the greatest opportunity we've ever known to extend liberty and the rule of law to those countries that have never known them, ant thats what I think we should get on with. I trust I make myself clear!" p 7

You can also buy Margaret Thatcher's book from both the US and the UK Amazon webstores.

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