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When I'm out of politics I'm going to run a business, it'll be called rent-a-spine

Margaret Thatcher

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Margaret Thatcher
Age: 87 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 13
Died: 2013
Died: April 8
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No great goal was ever easily achieved.
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A quick cure is a quack cure.
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I have very strong views about Europe. We're quite the best country. We rescued them. We're not going to get entangled with them. We've got to keep our own independence. Is that clear?
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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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Let me give you my vision: A man's right to work as he will, to spend what he earns, to own property, to have the state as servant and not as master. These are the British inheritance. They are the essence of a free country, and on that freedom all of our other freedoms depend.
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(A unified) 'Europe' is the result of plans. It is, in fact, a classic utopian project, a monument to the vanity of intellectuals, a programme whose inevitable destiny is failure: only the scale of the final damage done is in doubt.
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For the Christian there can be no social or political panaceas, no easy escapes from personal responsibility achieved by collectivising guilt or virtue. The true ends of temporal life lie beyond it, and, though the tyrannical State may diminish virtue, the benevolent State cannot procure it.
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I couldn't live without work. That's what makes me so sympathetic towards those people who are unemployed. I don't know how they live without working.
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Bribing regimes to comply with requirements which they should have acknowledged in the first place is not a process that appeals to me.
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When you hold back the successful, you penalize those who need help.
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Freedom will destroy itself if it is not exercised within some sort of moral framework, some body of shared beliefs, some spiritual heritage transmitted through the Church, the family, and the school.
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Please don't use the word tough. People might get the impression that I don't care. And I do care, very deeply. Resilient, I think.
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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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Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
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