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Hope is no basis for a defense policy.
Margaret Thatcher
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Margaret Thatcher
Age: 87 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 13
Died: 2013
Died: April 8
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Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.
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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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Peace is hard work and we must not allow people to forget it.
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The first step in calculating which way to go is to find out where you are.
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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.
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We do not achieve happiness or salvation in isolation from each other but as members of society
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Isn't a policy of conventional weapons, with the terrible bombs raining down, with the missiles, with the aircraft, with the submarines, with the torpedoes, with the tanks, with chemical weapons - isn't that based on the possibility of threat?
Margaret Thatcher
I will not change just to court popularity.
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Socialists cry “Power to the people”, and raise the clenched fist as they say it. We all know what they really mean - power over people, power to the State.
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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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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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The battle for women's rights has largely been won. The days when they were demanded and discussed in strident tones should be gone forever. I hate those strident tones we hear from some Women's Libbers.
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[On Ronald Reagan:] Poor dear, there's nothing between his ears.
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There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it.
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There's no such thing as society.
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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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I exercise my right as a free citizen to spend my own money in my own way, so that I can go on the day, the time, to the doctor I choose and get out fast.
Margaret Thatcher
The acid test of politics is not what you say at the hustings, but what you actually do in government.
Margaret Thatcher
Our judgement is that the presence of the Royal Marines garrison is sufficient deterrent against any possible aggression.
Margaret Thatcher
Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
Margaret Thatcher
