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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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Each generation has to stand up for democracy. It can't take anything for granted and may have to fight fundamental battles anew.
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Working hard may not make you rich, but it should make you successful.
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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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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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Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.
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When hecklers stand up, I get a mental jump for joy. It gives me something to get my teeth into - and the audiences love it.
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A leader is someone who knows what they want to achieve and can communicate that.
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There are dangers in consensus: it could be an attempt to satisfy people holding no particular views about anything. ... No great party can survive except on the basis of firm beliefs about what it wants to do.
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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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We went back on a very similar manifesto to things I believe in. The difference is that after eighteen months to two years he did the biggest U-turn on policy of all time and started to go the wrong way. In the end, that cost us the next election.
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The first step in calculating which way to go is to find out where you are.
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Consensus is the negation of leadership.
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A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
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(On The International Criminal Court) For the victors of the Cold War to submit to an unelected, unaccountable, and almost certainly hostile body such as that envisaged would be the ultimate irony.
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Ronald Reagan knew his own mind. He had firm principles - and, I believe, right ones. He expounded them clearly, he acted upon them decisively.
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Everything a politician promises at election time has to be paid for either by higher taxation or by borrowing.
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If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
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If you want to get something said in the politics tell a man. If you want to get something done in the politics tell a woman
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The Nuremburg trials were attacked at the time as 'victor's justice'. And this is precisely what they were - and were intended to be.
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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.
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