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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.
Margaret Thatcher
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Margaret Thatcher
Age: 87 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 13
Died: 2013
Died: April 8
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No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions he had money as well.
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Personal abuse is no substitute for policy. It signals panic.
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If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.
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Failure? The possibilities do not exist.
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We need a free economy not only for the renewed material prosperity it will bring, but because it is indispensable to individual freedom, human dignity and to a more just, more honest society.
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Socialism lays an bad egg by killing the capitalism that lays the golden eggs
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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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Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
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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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During my lifetime most of the problems the world has faced have come, in one fashion or another, from mainland Europe and the solution from outside it.
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It is no exaggeration to describe plain English as a fundamental tool of government.
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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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I am always on the job.
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The larger the slice taken by government, the smaller the cake available for everyone.
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The Nuremburg trials were attacked at the time as 'victor's justice'. And this is precisely what they were - and were intended to be.
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If a woman like Eva Peron with no ideals can get that far, think how far I can go with the ideals that I have.
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Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.
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