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Margaret Thatcher
Age: 87 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 13
Died: 2013
Died: April 8
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I shall fight on, I shall fight to win.
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I still want to play in it, maybe when I absolutely think I have no chance of playing in it my view might change but I doubt it because it just doesn't interest me.
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There are always dangers about. Therefore you must always keep your defences strong.
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Any leader has to have a certain amount of steel in them, so I am not that put out being called the Iron Lady.
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To me consensus seems to be - the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies in search of something in which no-one believes, but to which no-one objects.
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Ladies and gentlemen, I stand before you tonight in my … chiffon evening gown, my face softly made up, my fair hair gently waved, the Iron Lady of the Western world. Me? A Cold War warrior? … Well, yes — if that is how they wish to interpret my defense of values of freedoms fundamental to our way of life.
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Whether at home or abroad, the task of statesman is to work with human nature warts and all, and to draw on instincts and even prejudices that can be turned to good purpose. It is never to try to recreate Mankind in a new image.
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Just rejoice at the news and congratulate our armed forces and the Marines. Rejoice!
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Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
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Marxists get up early to further their cause. We must get up even earlier to defend our freedom.
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If you are guided by opinion polls, you are not practicing leadership -- you are practicing followership.
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I had the patriotic conviction that, given great leadership of the sort I heard from Winston Churchill in the radio broadcasts to which we listened, there was almost nothing that the British people could not do.
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You can't buck the market.
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Communism produces neither dignity nor prosperity. It takes all power away from the people and places it in the hands of a self-appointed elite. And because it distorts and manipulates the distinctive talents of individuals rather than letting those talents flourish, it prevents progress and prosperity.
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We do not achieve happiness or salvation in isolation from each other but as members of society
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