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Ronald Reagan won the Cold War without firing a shot.

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Margaret Thatcher
Age: 87 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 13
Died: 2013
Died: April 8
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If you go into what I call a bubble boom, every bubble bursts.
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Just rejoice at the news and congratulate our armed forces and the Marines. Rejoice!
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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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A democratic Europe of nation states could be a force for liberty, enterprise and open trade. But, if creating a United States of Europe overrides these goals, the new Europe will be one of subsidy and protection
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To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.
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It seems like cloud cuckoo land. If anyone is suggesting that I would go to Parliament and suggest the abolition of the Pound Sterling - no! We have made it quite clear that we will not have a single currency imposed upon us.
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A quick cure is a quack cure.
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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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The real case against socialism is not its economic inefficiency, though on all sides there is evidence of that. Much more fundamental is its basic immorality.
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Free enterprise has enabled the creative and the acquisitive urges of man to be given expression in a way which benefits all members of society. Let free enterprise fight back now, not for itself, but for all those who believe in freedom.
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The government has no money of its own. It's all your money.
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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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If you are guided by opinion polls, you are not practicing leadership -- you are practicing followership.
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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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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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We shall take whatever action is necessary to contain the growth of the money supply. The government, unlike so many of its predecessors, will face up to economic realities.
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The habit of ubiquitous interventionism, combining pinprick strikes by precision weapons with pious invocations of high principle, would lead us into endless difficulties. Interventions must be limited in number and overwhelming in their impact.
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Any leader has to have a certain amount of steel in them, so I am not that put out being called the Iron Lady.
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I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.
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Life's greatest reward is life itself
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