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Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
Margaret Thatcher
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Margaret Thatcher
Age: 87 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 13
Died: 2013
Died: April 8
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I think Essex Man will vote for a Conservative Government.
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I was asked whether I was trying to restore Victorian values. I said straight out I was. And I am.
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Whether manufactured by black, white, brown or yellow hands, a widget remains a widget – and it will be bought anywhere if the price and quality are right. The market is a more powerful and more reliable liberating force than government can ever be.
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We introduced the Community Charge. I still call it that. I like the Poles - I never had any intention of taxing them.
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Isn't a policy of conventional weapons, with the terrible bombs raining down, with the missiles, with the aircraft, with the submarines, with the torpedoes, with the tanks, with chemical weapons - isn't that based on the possibility of threat?
Margaret Thatcher
It's the Labour Government that have brought us record peacetime taxation. They've got the usual Socialist disease - they've run out of other people's money.
Margaret Thatcher
A quick cure is a quack cure.
Margaret Thatcher
Our children need strong families raising them with sturdy virtues, not to be smothered in the cold arms of the state.
Margaret Thatcher
Our judgement is that the presence of the Royal Marines garrison is sufficient deterrent against any possible aggression.
Margaret Thatcher
When government does its job properly people are free to do theirs.
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A man who, beyond the age of 26, finds himself on a bus can count himself as a failure.
Margaret Thatcher
Let us, then, draw together in the name, not of jingoism, but of justice
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The Russians put guns before butter. We put just about everything before guns.
Margaret Thatcher
I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
Margaret Thatcher
We Conservatives hate unemployment.
Margaret Thatcher
There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.
Margaret Thatcher
I owe nothing to Women's Lib.
Margaret Thatcher
The patronage state is an arrogant state. It assumes it can spend your money better than you do. Yet it expects you to work for it in the first place.
Margaret Thatcher
The habit of ubiquitous interventionism, combining pinprick strikes by precision weapons with pious invocations of high principle, would lead us into endless difficulties. Interventions must be limited in number and overwhelming in their impact.
Margaret Thatcher
Economics are the method the object is to change the soul.
Margaret Thatcher
