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As a motive for terror, religion has more often than not required a good deal of lubrication by lucre.
Margaret Thatcher
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Margaret Thatcher
Age: 87 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 13
Died: 2013
Died: April 8
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Whether at home or abroad, the task of statesman is to work with human nature warts and all, and to draw on instincts and even prejudices that can be turned to good purpose. It is never to try to recreate Mankind in a new image.
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I don't know what I would do without Whitelaw. Everyone should have a Willy.
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I want my money back!
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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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Rooster, maybe well crows, but the eggs still bears the chicken.
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I would not wish to be Prime Minister, dear.
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Hope is no basis for a defense policy.
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If you set out to be liked, you will accomplish nothing.
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When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment, it's exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
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While the Soviet Union has imposed its rule on its neighbours and drawn an iron curtain between east and west, we in Great Britain have given freedom and independence to more than forty-eight countries whose populations now number more than a thousand million - a quarter of the world's total.
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In a system of free trade and free markets poor countries - and poor people - are not poor because others are rich. Indeed, if others became less rich the poor would in all probability become still poorer.
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I calculate that I was responsible for proposing the elevation to the Lords of some 214 of its present numbers.
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Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.
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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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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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Freedom is not synonymous with an easy life. ... There are many difficult things about freedom: It does not give you safety, it creates moral dilemmas for you it requires self-discipline it imposes great responsibilities but such is the nature of Man and in such consists his glory and salvation.
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One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you - suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, 'Well, I'll have a go, too.'
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John Gummer just did not have the political clout or credibility to rally the troops. I had appointed him as a sort of nightwatchman, but he seemed to have to sleep on the job.
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During my lifetime most of the problems the world has faced have come, in one fashion or another, from mainland Europe and the solution from outside it.
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