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The spirit of envy can destroy it can never build.
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 you set out to be liked, you will accomplish nothing.
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There are always dangers about. Therefore you must always keep your defences strong.
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I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.
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If your only opportunity is to be equal then it is not opportunity.
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Just rejoice at the news and congratulate our armed forces and the Marines. Rejoice!
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The acid test of politics is not what you say at the hustings, but what you actually do in government.
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[When asked how it felt to be a female prime minister:] I don't know: I've never experienced the alternative.
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In the same period that the Americans have lived under one constitution our French friends notched up five. A Punch cartoon has a 19th century Englishman asking a librarian for a copy of the French constitution, only to be told: 'I am sorry Sir, we do not stock periodicals.'
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It is in a country's interests to keep faith with its allies. States in this sense are like people. If you have a reputation for exacting favors and not returning them, the favours dry up.
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[On George H.W. Bush:] By 1990 I had learned that I had to defer to him in conversation and not to stint the praise. If that was what was necessary to secure Britain's interests and influence, I had no hesitation in eating a little humble pie.
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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.
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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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We must not fall into the mistake of thinking that it is America that trades with Taiwan or Europe that trades with Asia. The truth is that it is American companies that trade with Taiwanese companies.
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If... many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.
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We were told our campaign wasn't sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment.
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Socialism lays an bad egg by killing the capitalism that lays the golden eggs
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Why do you climb philosophical hills? Because they are worth climbing . . . There are no hills to go down unless you start from the top.
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Wars are not caused by the buildup of weapons. They are caused when an aggressor believes he can achieve his objectives at an acceptable price.
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If we are safe today, it is because America has stood with us. If we are to remain safe tomorrow, it will be because America remains powerful and self-confident. When, therefore, the Americans face difficulties, we need to say to them more clearly: We are with you.
Margaret Thatcher
If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.
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