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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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I was asked whether I was trying to restore Victorian values. I said straight out I was. And I am.
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Those who imagine that a politician would make a better figurehead than a hereditary monarch might perhaps make the acquaintance of more politicians.
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I believe we should continue to have a partnership of national states each retaining the right to protect its vital interests, but developing more effectively than at present the habit of working together.
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Let us, then, draw together in the name, not of jingoism, but of justice
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I wasn't lucky. I deserved it.
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It is not the business of politicians to please everyone.
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I'm also very much aware that it is you who brought democracy to Chile, you set up a constitution suitable for democracy, you put it into effect, elections were held, and then, in accordance with the result, you stepped down.
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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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Our aim is to make tax collecting a declining industry.
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I'm back... and you knew I was coming. On my way here I passed a cinema with the sign 'The Mummy Returns'.
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Personal abuse is no substitute for policy. It signals panic.
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Let us never forget this fundamental truth: The State has no source of money other than the money people themselves earn.
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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'm happy as a dog with two dicks
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I still want to play in it, maybe when I absolutely think I have no chance of playing in it my view might change but I doubt it because it just doesn't interest me.
Margaret Thatcher
I don't know what I would do without Whitelaw. Everyone should have a Willy.
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Socialists don't like ordinary people choosing, for they might not choose Socialism.
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During my lifetime most of the problems the world has faced have come, in one fashion or another, from mainland Europe and the solution from outside it.
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The accumulation of wealth is a process which is of itself morally neutral. True, as Christianity teaches, riches bring temptations. But then so does poverty.
Margaret Thatcher
It is absolutely right that President Reagan considers SDI and thank goodness people considered nuclear research before the last war.
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