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If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
Margaret Thatcher
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Margaret Thatcher
Age: 87 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 13
Died: 2013
Died: April 8
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Isn't a policy of conventional weapons, with the terrible bombs raining down, with the missiles, with the aircraft, with the submarines, with the torpedoes, with the tanks, with chemical weapons - isn't that based on the possibility of threat?
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Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing it's a day you've had everything to do and you've done it.
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I've got my teeth into him, and I'm not going to let go.
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Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.
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When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment, it's exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
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We shall take whatever action is necessary to contain the growth of the money supply. The government, unlike so many of its predecessors, will face up to economic realities.
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Our aim is to make tax collecting a declining industry.
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The first step in calculating which way to go is to find out where you are.
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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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Please don't use the word tough. People might get the impression that I don't care. And I do care, very deeply. Resilient, I think.
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The Labour Party believes in turning workers against owners we believe in turning workers into owners.
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You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.
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Just rejoice at the news and congratulate our armed forces and the Marines. Rejoice!
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Constitutions have to be written on hearts, not just paper.
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I have never knowingly made a non-controversial speech in my life.
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If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.
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If a woman like Eva Peron with no ideals can get that far, think how far I can go with the ideals that I have.
Margaret Thatcher
No Western nation has to build a wall round itself to keep its people in.
Margaret Thatcher
If you have a sense of purpose and a sense of direction, I believe people will follow you. Democracy isn't just about deducing what the people want. Democracy is leading the people as well.
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We Conservatives hate unemployment.
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