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Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
Margaret Thatcher
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Margaret Thatcher
Age: 87 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 13
Died: 2013
Died: April 8
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In a system of free trade and free markets poor countries - and poor people - are not poor because others are rich. Indeed, if others became less rich the poor would in all probability become still poorer.
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I think, historically, the term 'Thatcherism' will be seen as a compliment.
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Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.
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I'm also very much aware that it is you who brought democracy to Chile, you set up a constitution suitable for democracy, you put it into effect, elections were held, and then, in accordance with the result, you stepped down.
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I started out in life with two great advantages: No money and good parents.
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The Nuremburg trials were attacked at the time as 'victor's justice'. And this is precisely what they were - and were intended to be.
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If you are guided by opinion polls, you are not practicing leadership -- you are practicing followership.
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Freedom under the law must never be taken for granted.
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I do not understand the unilateralists. If they hated nuclear weapons as much as I do they would want them down in the world as a whole. I am the true disarmer, I keep peace and freedom and justice with it.
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I am an ally of the United States. We believe the same things, we believe passionately in the same battle of ideas, we will defend them to the hilt. Never try to separate me from them.
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I might have preferred iron - but bronze will do. It won't rust. This time I hope, the head will stay on.
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I never hugged him, I bombed him.
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The acid test of politics is not what you say at the hustings, but what you actually do in government.
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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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I am always on the job.
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I do believe that political arrangements which are based upon violence, intimidation and theft will eventually break down - and will deserve to do so.
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While the Soviet Union has imposed its rule on its neighbours and drawn an iron curtain between east and west, we in Great Britain have given freedom and independence to more than forty-eight countries whose populations now number more than a thousand million - a quarter of the world's total.
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I don't think any woman in power really has a happy life unless she's got a large number of women friends ... because you sometimes must go and sit down and let down your hair with someone you can trust totally.
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No great goal was ever easily achieved.
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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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