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It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Margaret Thatcher

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Margaret Thatcher
Age: 87 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 13
Died: 2013
Died: April 8
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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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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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Good Conservatives always pay their bills. And on time. Not like the Socialists who run up other people's bills.
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Being powerful is a lot like being a woman: If you have to tell someone that you are, invariably, you are not.
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When you hold back the successful, you penalize those who need help.
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Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
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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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I must be absolutely clear about this. Britain cannot accept the present situation on the Budget. It is demonstrably unjust. It is politically indefensible: I cannot play Sister Bountiful to the Community while my own electorate are being asked to forego improvements in the fields of health, education, welfare and the rest.
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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 will not stagger from expedient to expedient.
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I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.
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Yet the basic fact remains: every regulation represents a restriction of liberty, every regulation has a cost. That is why, like marriage (in the Prayer Book's words), regulation should not be enterprised, nor taken in hand, unadvisedly, lightly, or wantonly
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Each generation has to stand up for democracy. It can't take anything for granted and may have to fight fundamental battles anew.
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For the Christian there can be no social or political panaceas, no easy escapes from personal responsibility achieved by collectivising guilt or virtue. The true ends of temporal life lie beyond it, and, though the tyrannical State may diminish virtue, the benevolent State cannot procure it.
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I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.
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Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.
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I still want to play in it, maybe when I absolutely think I have no chance of playing in it my view might change but I doubt it because it just doesn't interest me.
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I wasn't lucky. I deserved it.
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It used to be about trying to do something. Now it's about trying to be someone.
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And what a prize we have to fight for: no less than the chance to banish from our land the dark divisive clouds of Marxist socialism.
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