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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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I have a habit of comparing the phraseology of communiques . . . noting a certain similarity of words, a certain similarity of optimism . . . and a certain similarity in the lack of practical results during the ensuring years.
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What we should grasp, however, from the lessons of European history is that, first, there is nothing necessarily benevolent about programmes of European integration second, the desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom and third, European unity has been tried before, and the outcome was far from happy.
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I will not stagger from expedient to expedient.
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Just rejoice at the news and congratulate our armed forces and the Marines. Rejoice!
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As a motive for terror, religion has more often than not required a good deal of lubrication by lucre.
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I'm happy as a dog with two dicks
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It is absolutely right that President Reagan considers SDI and thank goodness people considered nuclear research before the last war.
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I want a capital-earning democracy. Every man and woman a capitalist. Housing is the start. If you're a man or woman of property, you've got something. So every man a capitalist, and every man a man of property.
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The first step in calculating which way to go is to find out where you are.
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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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We need to create a mood where it is everywhere thought morally right for as many people as possible to acquire capital.
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Our children need strong families raising them with sturdy virtues, not to be smothered in the cold arms of the state.
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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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I have the money and they won't get their hands on it.
Margaret Thatcher
All corporatism - even when practised in societies where hard work, enterprise and cooperation are as highly valued as in Korea - encourages inflexibility, discourages individual accountability, and risks magnifying errors by concealing them.
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Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy.
Margaret Thatcher
A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
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