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I never hugged him, I bombed him.
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 had the patriotic conviction that, given great leadership of the sort I heard from Winston Churchill in the radio broadcasts to which we listened, there was almost nothing that the British people could not do.
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Communist regimes were not some unfortunate aberration, some historical deviation from a socialist ideal. They were the ultimate expression, unconstrained by democratic and electoral pressures, of what socialism is all about. ... In short, the state [is] everything and the individual nothing.
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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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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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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 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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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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If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage.
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The spirit of envy can destroy it can never build.
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The Russians put guns before butter. We put just about everything before guns.
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Political success is a good deal pleasanter than political failure, but it too brings its problems.
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You can't buck the market.
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Failure? The possibilities do not exist.
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Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
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Putting the World to Rights
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When in August 1793 a British delegation showed their hosts a terrestrial globe, it turned into a diplomatic incident, for the Chinese were furious to see that their empire covered so little of it. For centuries the Chinese had thought of themselves as 'The Middle Kingdom', that is the centre of the civilized world. To see otherwise was a shock.
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Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.
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[On Ronald Reagan:] Poor dear, there's nothing between his ears.
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The Prime Minister is stealing our clothes but he is going to look pretty ridiculous walking around in mine.
Margaret Thatcher
No great goal was ever easily achieved.
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