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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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Let us, then, draw together in the name, not of jingoism, but of justice
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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.
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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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For every idealistic peacemaker willing to renounce his self-defence in favour of a weapons-free world, there is at least one warmaker anxious to exploit the other's good intentions.
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The government has no money of its own. It's all your money.
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I might have preferred iron - but bronze will do. It won't rust. This time I hope, the head will stay on.
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