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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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My first guiding principle is this: willing and active co-operation between independent sovereign states. Europe will be stronger precisely because it has France as France, Spain as Spain, Britain as Britain, each with its own customs, traditions and identity. It would be folly to try to fit them into some sort of identikit European personality.
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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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Never believe that technology alone will allow America to prevail as a superpower.
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I think Essex Man will vote for a Conservative Government.
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There are always dangers about. Therefore you must always keep your defences strong.
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Wars are not caused by the buildup of weapons. They are caused when an aggressor believes he can achieve his objectives at an acceptable price.
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No theory of government was ever given a fairer test or a more prolonged experiment in a democratic country than democratic socialism received in Britain. Yet it was a miserable failure in every respect... To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukemia with leeches.
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In the same period that the Americans have lived under one constitution our French friends notched up five. A Punch cartoon has a 19th century Englishman asking a librarian for a copy of the French constitution, only to be told: 'I am sorry Sir, we do not stock periodicals.'
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Rooster, maybe well crows, but the eggs still bears the chicken.
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Life's greatest reward is life itself
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I think perhaps we manage our revolutions much more quietly in this country.
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You can't buck the market.
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I believe our way of life is infinitely superior for every human being than any which the Communist creed can offer.
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Let our children grow tall and some taller than others if they have it in them to do so.
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For Dicey, writing in 1885, and for me reading him some seventy years later, the rule of law still had a very English, or at least Anglo-Saxon, feel to it. It was later, through Hayek's masterpieces The Constitution of Liberty and Law, Legislation and Liberty that I really came to think this principle as having wider application.
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We had to do what we had to do - Britain is great again.
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Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.
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