"Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy." ― Margaret Thatcher Topic(s): Patience Tags: created, europe, history More From Margaret Thatcher "The battle for women’s rights has been largely won." "I owe nothing to Women’s Lib." "It pays to know the enemy – not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend." More In Patience "Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious."― Marguerite Gardiner "Your patience would fail you if I should continue to relate all the disrespectful speeches and treatment which your servants have been obliged to listen to and patiently to bear."― Peter Stuyvesant "Temperamentally I’m not a natural producer, because I don’t have the patience."― Damian Lewis