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No generation has a free hold on this earth. All we have is a life tenancy-with a full repairing lease.
Margaret Thatcher
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Margaret Thatcher
Age: 87 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 13
Died: 2013
Died: April 8
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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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I calculate that I was responsible for proposing the elevation to the Lords of some 214 of its present numbers.
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I have very strong views about Europe. We're quite the best country. We rescued them. We're not going to get entangled with them. We've got to keep our own independence. Is that clear?
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To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
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It is no exaggeration to describe plain English as a fundamental tool of government.
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I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.
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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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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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Ronald Reagan won the Cold War without firing a shot.
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And what a prize we have to fight for: no less than the chance to banish from our land the dark divisive clouds of Marxist socialism.
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There are too few rich and too few profits.
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We are not in politics to ignore peoples' worries, we are in politics to deal with them.
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There are always dangers about. Therefore you must always keep your defences strong.
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When I'm out of politics I'm going to run a business, it'll be called rent-a-spine
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The Russians put guns before butter. We put just about everything before guns.
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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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Wars are not caused by the buildup of weapons. They are caused when an aggressor believes he can achieve his objectives at an acceptable price.
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I want to get totally rid of class distinction. As someone put it one of the papers this morning: Marks and Spencer have triumphed over Karl Marx and Engels.
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Being powerful is a lot like being a woman: If you have to tell someone that you are, invariably, you are not.
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The European single currency is bound to fail, economically, politically and indeed socially, though the timing, occasion and full consequences are all necessarily still unclear.
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