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If you have a sense of purpose and a sense of direction, I believe people will follow you. Democracy isn't just about deducing what the people want. Democracy is leading the people as well.
Margaret Thatcher
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Margaret Thatcher
Age: 87 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 13
Died: 2013
Died: April 8
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In those days one advantage of being a woman was that there was a basic courtesy towards us on which we could draw - something which today's feminists have largely dissipated.
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I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.
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The West as a whole in the early 1990s become obsessed with a 'peace dividend' that would be spent over and over again on any number of soft-hearted and sometimes soft-headed causes. Politicians forget that the only real peace dividend is peace.
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Consensus is the negation of leadership.
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We are a British nation with British characteristics. Every country can take some small minorities and in many ways they add to the richness and variety of this country. The moment the minority threatens to become a big one, people get frightened.
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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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We need a free economy not only for the renewed material prosperity it will bring, but because it is indispensable to individual freedom, human dignity and to a more just, more honest society.
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The Labour Party believes in turning workers against owners we believe in turning workers into owners.
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If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage.
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There might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.
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A man who, beyond the age of 26, finds himself on a bus can count himself as a failure.
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Yet the basic fact remains: every regulation represents a restriction of liberty, every regulation has a cost. That is why, like marriage (in the Prayer Book's words), regulation should not be enterprised, nor taken in hand, unadvisedly, lightly, or wantonly
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A leader is someone who knows what they want to achieve and can communicate that.
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Never believe that technology alone will allow America to prevail as a superpower.
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Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.
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Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.
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Isn't a policy of conventional weapons, with the terrible bombs raining down, with the missiles, with the aircraft, with the submarines, with the torpedoes, with the tanks, with chemical weapons - isn't that based on the possibility of threat?
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To me consensus seems to be - the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies in search of something in which no-one believes, but to which no-one objects.
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When I'm out of politics I'm going to run a business, it'll be called rent-a-spine
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I have never knowingly made a non-controversial speech in my life.
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