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What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner 'I stand for consensus'?
Margaret Thatcher
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Margaret Thatcher
Age: 87 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 13
Died: 2013
Died: April 8
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Remember the 'Parable of the Talents' in the New Testament? Christ exhorts us to be the best we can be by developing our skills and abilities, by succeeding in all our tasks and endeavors. What better description can there be of capitalism?
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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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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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No great goal was ever easily achieved.
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We Conservatives hate unemployment.
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If you are guided by opinion polls, you are not practicing leadership -- you are practicing followership.
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Young people ought not to be idle, it is very bad for them.
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If your only opportunity is to be equal then it is not opportunity.
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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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For every idealistic peacemaker willing to renounce his self-defence in favour of a weapons-free world, there is at least one warmaker anxious to exploit the other's good intentions.
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Many of our troubles are due to the fact that our people turn to politicians for everything.
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When will Labour learn that you cannot build Jerusalem in Brussels.
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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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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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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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The secret of happiness is to live within your income and pay your bills on time.
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I'm not a good butcher but I've had to learn to carve the joint. People expect a new look.
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Ronald Reagan won the Cold War without firing a shot.
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We are a British nation with British characteristics. Every country can take some small minorities and in many ways they add to the richness and variety of this country. The moment the minority threatens to become a big one, people get frightened.
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As prime minister, I worked closely with Ronald Reagan for eight of the most important years of all our lives. We talked regularly both before and after his presidency. And I have had time and cause to reflect on what made him a great president.
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