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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.
Margaret Thatcher
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Margaret Thatcher
Age: 87 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 13
Died: 2013
Died: April 8
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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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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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The acid test of politics is not what you say at the hustings, but what you actually do in government.
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Ought we not to ask the media to agree among themselves a voluntary code of conduct, under which they would not say or show anything which could assist the terrorists' morale or their cause while the hijack lasted.
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I don't know what I would do without Whitelaw. Everyone should have a Willy.
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Marxists get up early to further their cause. We must get up even earlier to defend our freedom.
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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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All attempts to destroy democracy by terrorism will fail. It must be business as usual.
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Please don't use the word tough. People might get the impression that I don't care. And I do care, very deeply. Resilient, I think.
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The Russians are bent on world dominance, and they are rapidly acquiring the means to become the most powerful imperial nation the world has seen. The men in the Soviet Politburo do not have to worry about the ebb and flow of public opinion. They put guns before butter, while we put just about everything before guns.
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It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.
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You will only succeed if you know that what you are doing is right and you know how to bring out the best in people.
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What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner 'I stand for consensus'?
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President Numeiri of Sudan is said to have remarked of Gadaffi that he was 'a man with a split personality - both of them evil'.
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It's okay, Chancellor, you can touch them. Sometimes I just strip down to a tank top and stare at these guns in front of a mirror all day long.
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The patronage state is an arrogant state. It assumes it can spend your money better than you do. Yet it expects you to work for it in the first place.
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