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I wasn't lucky. I deserved it.
Margaret Thatcher
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Margaret Thatcher
Age: 87 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 13
Died: 2013
Died: April 8
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Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
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A man may climb Everest for himself, but at the summit he plants his country's flag.
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If we are safe today, it is because America has stood with us. If we are to remain safe tomorrow, it will be because America remains powerful and self-confident. When, therefore, the Americans face difficulties, we need to say to them more clearly: We are with you.
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I'm happy as a dog with two dicks
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Ronald Reagan won the Cold War without firing a shot.
Margaret Thatcher
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing it's a day you've had everything to do and you've done it.
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I will not stagger from expedient to expedient.
Margaret Thatcher
When will Labour learn that you cannot build Jerusalem in Brussels.
Margaret Thatcher
It seems like cloud cuckoo land. If anyone is suggesting that I would go to Parliament and suggest the abolition of the Pound Sterling - no! We have made it quite clear that we will not have a single currency imposed upon us.
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I was asked whether I was trying to restore Victorian values. I said straight out I was. And I am.
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Our children need strong families raising them with sturdy virtues, not to be smothered in the cold arms of the state.
Margaret Thatcher
[On being asked how many Mrs. Thatchers there were:] Oh, three at least. There is the intellectual one, the intuitive one and the one at home.
Margaret Thatcher
I shall fight on, I shall fight to win.
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You can't buck the market.
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Peace is hard work and we must not allow people to forget it.
Margaret Thatcher
It used to be about trying to do something. Now it's about trying to be someone.
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When you hold back the successful, you penalize those who need help.
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There's no such thing as society.
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If you are guided by opinion polls, you are not practicing leadership -- you are practicing followership.
Margaret Thatcher
We shall take whatever action is necessary to contain the growth of the money supply. The government, unlike so many of its predecessors, will face up to economic realities.
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