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Any leader has to have a certain amount of steel in them, so I am not that put out being called the Iron Lady.
Margaret Thatcher
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Margaret Thatcher
Age: 87 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 13
Died: 2013
Died: April 8
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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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What we should grasp, however, from the lessons of European history is that, first, there is nothing necessarily benevolent about programmes of European integration second, the desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom and third, European unity has been tried before, and the outcome was far from happy.
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While the Soviet Union has imposed its rule on its neighbours and drawn an iron curtain between east and west, we in Great Britain have given freedom and independence to more than forty-eight countries whose populations now number more than a thousand million - a quarter of the world's total.
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The desire to win is born in most of us. The will to win is a matter of training. The manner of winning is a matter of honour.
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The Nuremburg trials were attacked at the time as 'victor's justice'. And this is precisely what they were - and were intended to be.
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We do not have a freehold on the earth, only a full repairing lease
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If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
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I can cope with nine of them, so they ought to be able to stand one of me. They could end the tiresomeness and stubbornness by giving me what I want.
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To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
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There is no such thing as society.
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There's no such thing as society.
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All corporatism - even when practised in societies where hard work, enterprise and cooperation are as highly valued as in Korea - encourages inflexibility, discourages individual accountability, and risks magnifying errors by concealing them.
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I don't know what I would do without Whitelaw. Everyone should have a Willy.
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I can't bear Britain in decline. I just can't.
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We had to do what we had to do - Britain is great again.
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Everything a politician promises at election time has to be paid for either by higher taxation or by borrowing.
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Rooster, maybe well crows, but the eggs still bears the chicken.
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Ronald Reagan won the Cold War without firing a shot.
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I went to Oxford University - but I've never let that hold me back.
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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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