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You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.
Margaret Thatcher
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Margaret Thatcher
Age: 87 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 13
Died: 2013
Died: April 8
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If a woman like Eva Peron with no ideals can get that far, think how far I can go with the ideals that I have.
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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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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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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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All attempts to destroy democracy by terrorism will fail. It must be business as usual.
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