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If you set out to be liked, you will accomplish nothing.

Margaret Thatcher

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Margaret Thatcher
Age: 87 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 13
Died: 2013
Died: April 8
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Communism produces neither dignity nor prosperity. It takes all power away from the people and places it in the hands of a self-appointed elite. And because it distorts and manipulates the distinctive talents of individuals rather than letting those talents flourish, it prevents progress and prosperity.
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Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
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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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I have never knowingly made a non-controversial speech in my life.
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Life's greatest reward is life itself
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(On The International Criminal Court) For the victors of the Cold War to submit to an unelected, unaccountable, and almost certainly hostile body such as that envisaged would be the ultimate irony.
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It is not the business of politicians to please everyone.
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I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
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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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Any attempts by any government to change Community legislation to its own wishes are doomed to failure following the extension of policy areas now subject to majority voting... In our opinion, this must have serious implications for the traditional view of Parliament as a legislative body sovereignty.
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I must be absolutely clear about this. Britain cannot accept the present situation on the Budget. It is demonstrably unjust. It is politically indefensible: I cannot play Sister Bountiful to the Community while my own electorate are being asked to forego improvements in the fields of health, education, welfare and the rest.
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Being powerful is a lot like being a woman: If you have to tell someone that you are, invariably, you are not.
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Our judgement is that the presence of the Royal Marines garrison is sufficient deterrent against any possible aggression.
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The battle for women's rights has largely been won. The days when they were demanded and discussed in strident tones should be gone forever. I hate those strident tones we hear from some Women's Libbers.
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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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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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