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The patronage state is an arrogant state. It assumes it can spend your money better than you do. Yet it expects you to work for it in the first place.
Margaret Thatcher
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Margaret Thatcher
Age: 87 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 13
Died: 2013
Died: April 8
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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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It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
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There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.
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The Labour Party believes in turning workers against owners we believe in turning workers into owners.
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Communism produces neither dignity nor prosperity. It takes all power away from the people and places it in the hands of a self-appointed elite. And because it distorts and manipulates the distinctive talents of individuals rather than letting those talents flourish, it prevents progress and prosperity.
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I have very strong views about Europe. We're quite the best country. We rescued them. We're not going to get entangled with them. We've got to keep our own independence. Is that clear?
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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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Consensus is the absence of leadership.
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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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In the same period that the Americans have lived under one constitution our French friends notched up five. A Punch cartoon has a 19th century Englishman asking a librarian for a copy of the French constitution, only to be told: 'I am sorry Sir, we do not stock periodicals.'
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Let our children grow tall and some taller than others if they have it in them to do so.
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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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It is not the business of politicians to please everyone.
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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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Life in a free society...is heaven on earth to life in a socialist society such as Russia.
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All the general propositions favouring freedom I had .. imbibed at my father's knee or acquired by candle-end reading of Burke and Hayek...
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I don't know what I would do without Whitelaw. Everyone should have a Willy.
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I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.
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It is always important in matters of high politics to know what you do not know. Those who think they know, but are mistaken, and act upon their mistakes, are the most dangerous people to have in charge.
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We went back on a very similar manifesto to things I believe in. The difference is that after eighteen months to two years he did the biggest U-turn on policy of all time and started to go the wrong way. In the end, that cost us the next election.
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