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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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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.
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Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
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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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As a motive for terror, religion has more often than not required a good deal of lubrication by lucre.
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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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[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 went to Oxford University - but I've never let that hold me back.
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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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I am an ally of the United States. We believe the same things, we believe passionately in the same battle of ideas, we will defend them to the hilt. Never try to separate me from them.
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When you stop a dictator, there are always risks. But there are greater risks in not stopping a dictator.
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I couldn't live without work. That's what makes me so sympathetic towards those people who are unemployed. I don't know how they live without working.
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We have made too much of one or two people, and we think that they can win or lose elections for us. Don't be depressed if one particular person transgresses. It doesn't lose an election unless the Party loses faith in itself.
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Freedom will destroy itself if it is not exercised within some sort of moral framework, some body of shared beliefs, some spiritual heritage transmitted through the Church, the family, and the school.
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Each generation has to stand up for democracy. It can't take anything for granted and may have to fight fundamental battles anew.
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For the Christian there can be no social or political panaceas, no easy escapes from personal responsibility achieved by collectivising guilt or virtue. The true ends of temporal life lie beyond it, and, though the tyrannical State may diminish virtue, the benevolent State cannot procure it.
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I owe nothing to Women's Lib.
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A man may climb Everest for himself, but at the summit he plants his country's flag.
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