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Margaret Thatcher
Age: 87 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 13
Died: 2013
Died: April 8
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To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
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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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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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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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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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All corporatism - even when practised in societies where hard work, enterprise and cooperation are as highly valued as in Korea - encourages inflexibility, discourages individual accountability, and risks magnifying errors by concealing them.
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The Third World is very much like the First World - just poorer: what works for the West will work for the rest as well.
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I have very strong views about Europe. We're quite the best country. We rescued them. We're not going to get entangled with them. We've got to keep our own independence. Is that clear?
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Communist regimes were not some unfortunate aberration, some historical deviation from a socialist ideal. They were the ultimate expression, unconstrained by democratic and electoral pressures, of what socialism is all about. ... In short, the state [is] everything and the individual nothing.
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The spirit of envy can destroy it can never build.
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When will Labour learn that you cannot build Jerusalem in Brussels.
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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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Countries trade with each other - or to be more precise people buy and sell from each other across frontiers - because that is the way to advance their interests. We do not need to beg people to trade with us - as long as we have something that people want, of a quality they expect and at a price they are prepared to pay.
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No Western nation has to build a wall round itself to keep its people in.
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Dictators can be deterred, they can be crushed - but they can never be appeased.
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The mission of this government is much more than the promotion of economic progress. It is to renew the spirit and solidarity of the nation.
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The secret of happiness is to live within your income and pay your bills on time.
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We need to create a mood where it is everywhere thought morally right for as many people as possible to acquire capital.
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I might have preferred iron - but bronze will do. It won't rust. This time I hope, the head will stay on.
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