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I have a habit of comparing the phraseology of communiques . . . noting a certain similarity of words, a certain similarity of optimism . . . and a certain similarity in the lack of practical results during the ensuring years.

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 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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Peace is hard work and we must not allow people to forget it.
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I am not immortal, but I've got a lot left in me yet.
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There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it.
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Freedom is not synonymous with an easy life. ... There are many difficult things about freedom: It does not give you safety, it creates moral dilemmas for you it requires self-discipline it imposes great responsibilities but such is the nature of Man and in such consists his glory and salvation.
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Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.
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There's no such thing as society.
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You will only succeed if you know that what you are doing is right and you know how to bring out the best in people.
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During my lifetime most of the problems the world has faced have come, in one fashion or another, from mainland Europe and the solution from outside it.
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I do not understand the unilateralists. If they hated nuclear weapons as much as I do they would want them down in the world as a whole. I am the true disarmer, I keep peace and freedom and justice with it.
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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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If it's me against 48, I feel sorry for the 48.
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