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The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.
Margaret Thatcher
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Margaret Thatcher
Age: 87 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 13
Died: 2013
Died: April 8
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Personal abuse is no substitute for policy. It signals panic.
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During my lifetime most of the problems the world has faced have come, in one fashion or another, from mainland Europe and the solution from outside it.
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Freedom is not synonymous with an easy life. ... There are many difficult things about freedom: It does not give you safety, it creates moral dilemmas for you it requires self-discipline it imposes great responsibilities but such is the nature of Man and in such consists his glory and salvation.
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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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Everything a politician promises at election time has to be paid for either by higher taxation or by borrowing.
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Many of our troubles are due to the fact that our people turn to politicians for everything.
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When government does its job properly people are free to do theirs.
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[On George H.W. Bush:] By 1990 I had learned that I had to defer to him in conversation and not to stint the praise. If that was what was necessary to secure Britain's interests and influence, I had no hesitation in eating a little humble pie.
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When in August 1793 a British delegation showed their hosts a terrestrial globe, it turned into a diplomatic incident, for the Chinese were furious to see that their empire covered so little of it. For centuries the Chinese had thought of themselves as 'The Middle Kingdom', that is the centre of the civilized world. To see otherwise was a shock.
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There might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.
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As the former dissident Vladimir Bukovsky once remarked – referring to the Russian proverb to the effect that you cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs – he had seen plenty of broken eggs, but never tasted any omelette.
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Ronald Reagan knew his own mind. He had firm principles - and, I believe, right ones. He expounded them clearly, he acted upon them decisively.
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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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Ronald Reagan won the Cold War without firing a shot.
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What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner 'I stand for consensus'?
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A man may climb Everest for himself, but at the summit he plants his country's flag.
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Our aim is to make tax collecting a declining industry.
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The mission of this government is much more than the promotion of economic progress. It is to renew the spirit and solidarity of the nation.
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The spirit of envy can destroy it can never build.
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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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