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I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

Margaret Thatcher

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Margaret Thatcher
Age: 87 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 13
Died: 2013
Died: April 8
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Socialists cry “Power to the people”, and raise the clenched fist as they say it. We all know what they really mean - power over people, power to the State.
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If you set out to be liked, you will accomplish nothing.
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We are a British nation with British characteristics. Every country can take some small minorities and in many ways they add to the richness and variety of this country. The moment the minority threatens to become a big one, people get frightened.
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I think, historically, the term 'Thatcherism' will be seen as a compliment.
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It's the Labour Government that have brought us record peacetime taxation. They've got the usual Socialist disease - they've run out of other people's money.
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The habit of ubiquitous interventionism, combining pinprick strikes by precision weapons with pious invocations of high principle, would lead us into endless difficulties. Interventions must be limited in number and overwhelming in their impact.
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It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
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I exercise my right as a free citizen to spend my own money in my own way, so that I can go on the day, the time, to the doctor I choose and get out fast.
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Political success is a good deal pleasanter than political failure, but it too brings its problems.
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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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We have become a grandmother.
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You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.
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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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If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.
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The Prime Minister is stealing our clothes but he is going to look pretty ridiculous walking around in mine.
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A man who, beyond the age of 26, finds himself on a bus can count himself as a failure.
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The Russians are bent on world dominance, and they are rapidly acquiring the means to become the most powerful imperial nation the world has seen. The men in the Soviet Politburo do not have to worry about the ebb and flow of public opinion. They put guns before butter, while we put just about everything before guns.
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If you are guided by opinion polls, you are not practicing leadership -- you are practicing followership.
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