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Margaret Thatcher

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Margaret Thatcher
Age: 87 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 13
Died: 2013
Died: April 8
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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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I was asked whether I was trying to restore Victorian values. I said straight out I was. And I am.
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Remember the 'Parable of the Talents' in the New Testament? Christ exhorts us to be the best we can be by developing our skills and abilities, by succeeding in all our tasks and endeavors. What better description can there be of capitalism?
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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 do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.
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What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner 'I stand for consensus'?
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All attempts to destroy democracy by terrorism will fail. It must be business as usual.
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If your only opportunity is to be equal then it is not opportunity.
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Working hard may not make you rich, but it should make you successful.
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Whether manufactured by black, white, brown or yellow hands, a widget remains a widget – and it will be bought anywhere if the price and quality are right. The market is a more powerful and more reliable liberating force than government can ever be.
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If you are guided by opinion polls, you are not practicing leadership -- you are practicing followership.
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Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.
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It's the Labour Government that have brought us record peacetime taxation. They've got the usual Socialist disease - they've run out of other people's money.
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Many of our troubles are due to the fact that our people turn to politicians for everything.
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Socialists don't like ordinary people choosing, for they might not choose Socialism.
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In those days one advantage of being a woman was that there was a basic courtesy towards us on which we could draw - something which today's feminists have largely dissipated.
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Our children need strong families raising them with sturdy virtues, not to be smothered in the cold arms of the state.
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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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I can't bear Britain in decline. I just can't.
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We shall take whatever action is necessary to contain the growth of the money supply. The government, unlike so many of its predecessors, will face up to economic realities.
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