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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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I'll stay until I'm tired of it. So long as Britain needs me, I shall never be tired of it.
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The government has no money of its own. It's all your money.
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We must not fall into the mistake of thinking that it is America that trades with Taiwan or Europe that trades with Asia. The truth is that it is American companies that trade with Taiwanese companies.
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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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I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.
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The first step in calculating which way to go is to find out where you are.
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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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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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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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I am always on the job.
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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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Let us never forget this fundamental truth: The State has no source of money other than the money people themselves earn.
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I'm also very much aware that it is you who brought democracy to Chile, you set up a constitution suitable for democracy, you put it into effect, elections were held, and then, in accordance with the result, you stepped down.
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I'm back... and you knew I was coming. On my way here I passed a cinema with the sign 'The Mummy Returns'.
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If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.
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I wasn't lucky. I deserved it.
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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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There's no such thing as society.
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Being democratic is not enough, a majority cannot turn what is wrong into right. In order to be considered truly free, countries must also have a deep love of liberty and an abiding respect for the rule of law.
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I had the patriotic conviction that, given great leadership of the sort I heard from Winston Churchill in the radio broadcasts to which we listened, there was almost nothing that the British people could not do.
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