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Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people's money. It's quite a characteristic of them.
Margaret Thatcher
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Margaret Thatcher
Age: 87 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 13
Died: 2013
Died: April 8
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Remember the 'Parable of the Talents' in the New Testament? Christ exhorts us to be the best we can be by developing our skills and abilities, by succeeding in all our tasks and endeavors. What better description can there be of capitalism?
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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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When you stop a dictator, there are always risks. But there are greater risks in not stopping a dictator.
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If you go into what I call a bubble boom, every bubble bursts.
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I like Mr Gorbachev, we can do business together.
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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 love his music because he was my generation. But then again, Elvis is everyone's generation, and he always will be.
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It is always important in matters of high politics to know what you do not know. Those who think they know, but are mistaken, and act upon their mistakes, are the most dangerous people to have in charge.
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What happened in Russia in 1917 wasn't a revolution - it was a coup d'etat.
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Let me give you my vision: A man's right to work as he will, to spend what he earns, to own property, to have the state as servant and not as master. These are the British inheritance. They are the essence of a free country, and on that freedom all of our other freedoms depend.
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When will Labour learn that you cannot build Jerusalem in Brussels.
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The choice facing the nation is between two totally different ways of life. And what a prize we have to fight for: no less than the chance to banish from our land the dark, divisive clouds of Marxist socialism and bring together men and women from all walks of life who share a belief in freedom.
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I want my money back!
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If you set out to be liked, you will accomplish nothing.
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Any attempts by any government to change Community legislation to its own wishes are doomed to failure following the extension of policy areas now subject to majority voting... In our opinion, this must have serious implications for the traditional view of Parliament as a legislative body sovereignty.
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I never hugged him, I bombed him.
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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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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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We Conservatives hate unemployment.
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