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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.
Margaret Thatcher
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Margaret Thatcher
Age: 87 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 13
Died: 2013
Died: April 8
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Our children need strong families raising them with sturdy virtues, not to be smothered in the cold arms of the state.
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Socialists cry “Power to the people”, and raise the clenched fist as they say it. We all know what they really mean - power over people, power to the State.
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[When asked how it felt to be a female prime minister:] I don't know: I've never experienced the alternative.
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It used to be about trying to do something. Now it's about trying to be someone.
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A bully has no respect for a weakling and the way to stop a bully is not to be weak. The way to stop a bully from ever being a bully is to say: I'm as strong as you. Anything you do to me, I can do to you. We are going for nuclear and conventional disarmament but we're going about it in the right way.
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I can't bear Britain in decline. I just can't.
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I don't want to fight any wars if you can get them off before we get there, you do it, but off they go.
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Socialists don't like ordinary people choosing, for they might not choose Socialism.
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Tyranny must not prevail.
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I have never knowingly made a non-controversial speech in my life.
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The woman's mission is not to enhance the masculine spirit, but to express the feminine hers is not to preserve a man-made world, but to create a human world by the infusion of the feminine element into all of its activities.
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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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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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Never believe that technology alone will allow America to prevail as a superpower.
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It is no exaggeration to describe plain English as a fundamental tool of government.
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I am not immortal, but I've got a lot left in me yet.
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We introduced the Community Charge. I still call it that. I like the Poles - I never had any intention of taxing them.
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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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You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.
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