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I started out in life with two great advantages: No money and good parents.
Margaret Thatcher
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Margaret Thatcher
Age: 87 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 13
Died: 2013
Died: April 8
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The National Health Service is safe with us. The principle of adequate healthcare should be provided for all regardless of ability to pay must be the function of any arrangements for financing the NHS. We stand by that.
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There might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.
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I was asked whether I was trying to restore Victorian values. I said straight out I was. And I am.
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I wasn't lucky. I deserved it.
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It is in a country's interests to keep faith with its allies. States in this sense are like people. If you have a reputation for exacting favors and not returning them, the favours dry up.
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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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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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I can't bear Britain in decline. I just can't.
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Why do you climb philosophical hills? Because they are worth climbing . . . There are no hills to go down unless you start from the top.
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Business success isn't just a selfish aim. Profits spread beyond those who make them and bring jobs and prosperity.
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All corporatism - even when practised in societies where hard work, enterprise and cooperation are as highly valued as in Korea - encourages inflexibility, discourages individual accountability, and risks magnifying errors by concealing them.
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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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If a woman like Eva Peron with no ideals can get that far, think how far I can go with the ideals that I have.
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Just rejoice at the news and congratulate our armed forces and the Marines. Rejoice!
Margaret Thatcher
When I look at him [Edward Heath] and he looks at me, I don't feel that it is a man looking at a woman. More like a woman being looked at by another woman.
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I'll stay until I'm tired of it. So long as Britain needs me, I shall never be tired of it.
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