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Margaret Thatcher
Age: 87 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 13
Died: 2013
Died: April 8
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Just rejoice at the news and congratulate our armed forces and the Marines. Rejoice!
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I believe we should continue to have a partnership of national states each retaining the right to protect its vital interests, but developing more effectively than at present the habit of working together.
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Ladies and gentlemen, I stand before you tonight in my … chiffon evening gown, my face softly made up, my fair hair gently waved, the Iron Lady of the Western world. Me? A Cold War warrior? … Well, yes — if that is how they wish to interpret my defense of values of freedoms fundamental to our way of life.
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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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Remember the 'Parable of the Talents' in the New Testament? Christ exhorts us to be the best we can be by developing our skills and abilities, by succeeding in all our tasks and endeavors. What better description can there be of capitalism?
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It is absolutely right that President Reagan considers SDI and thank goodness people considered nuclear research before the last war.
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I might have preferred iron - but bronze will do. It won't rust. This time I hope, the head will stay on.
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I like Mr Gorbachev, we can do business together.
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Those who imagine that a politician would make a better figurehead than a hereditary monarch might perhaps make the acquaintance of more politicians.
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If you set out to be liked, you will accomplish nothing.
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Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.
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All the general propositions favouring freedom I had .. imbibed at my father's knee or acquired by candle-end reading of Burke and Hayek...
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The larger the slice taken by government, the smaller the cake available for everyone.
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It's okay, Chancellor, you can touch them. Sometimes I just strip down to a tank top and stare at these guns in front of a mirror all day long.
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If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.
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It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
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A quick cure is a quack cure.
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The European single currency is bound to fail, economically, politically and indeed socially, though the timing, occasion and full consequences are all necessarily still unclear.
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