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There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.
Margaret Thatcher
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Margaret Thatcher
Age: 87 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 13
Died: 2013
Died: April 8
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The first step in calculating which way to go is to find out where you are.
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Freedom will destroy itself if it is not exercised within some sort of moral framework, some body of shared beliefs, some spiritual heritage transmitted through the Church, the family, and the school.
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Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
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I like Mr Gorbachev, we can do business together.
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It's a funny old world.
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If you want to get something said in the politics tell a man. If you want to get something done in the politics tell a woman
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There are dangers in consensus: it could be an attempt to satisfy people holding no particular views about anything. ... No great party can survive except on the basis of firm beliefs about what it wants to do.
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Constitutions have to be written on hearts, not just paper.
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Bribing regimes to comply with requirements which they should have acknowledged in the first place is not a process that appeals to me.
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I went to Oxford University - but I've never let that hold me back.
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Tyranny must not prevail.
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[On Ronald Reagan:] Poor dear, there's nothing between his ears.
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There's no such thing as society.
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Any leader has to have a certain amount of steel in them, so I am not that put out being called the Iron Lady.
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The Nuremburg trials were attacked at the time as 'victor's justice'. And this is precisely what they were - and were intended to be.
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I hope we shall see more ande more women combining marriage and a career. Prejudice against this dual role is not confined to men. I regret to say, it comes from our own sex.
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Communism produces neither dignity nor prosperity. It takes all power away from the people and places it in the hands of a self-appointed elite. And because it distorts and manipulates the distinctive talents of individuals rather than letting those talents flourish, it prevents progress and prosperity.
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No generation has a free hold on this earth. All we have is a life tenancy-with a full repairing lease.
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Countries trade with each other - or to be more precise people buy and sell from each other across frontiers - because that is the way to advance their interests. We do not need to beg people to trade with us - as long as we have something that people want, of a quality they expect and at a price they are prepared to pay.
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The accumulation of wealth is a process which is of itself morally neutral. True, as Christianity teaches, riches bring temptations. But then so does poverty.
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