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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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Let our children grow tall and some taller than others if they have it in them to do so.
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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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I believe our way of life is infinitely superior for every human being than any which the Communist creed can offer.
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Let us, then, draw together in the name, not of jingoism, but of justice
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I have the money and they won't get their hands on it.
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There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it.
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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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No theory of government was ever given a fairer test or a more prolonged experiment in a democratic country than democratic socialism received in Britain. Yet it was a miserable failure in every respect... To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukemia with leeches.
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I'll stay until I'm tired of it. So long as Britain needs me, I shall never be tired of it.
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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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There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.
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Dictators can be deterred, they can be crushed - but they can never be appeased.
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