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I will not stagger from expedient to expedient.
Margaret Thatcher
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Margaret Thatcher
Age: 87 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 13
Died: 2013
Died: April 8
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While the Soviet Union has imposed its rule on its neighbours and drawn an iron curtain between east and west, we in Great Britain have given freedom and independence to more than forty-eight countries whose populations now number more than a thousand million - a quarter of the world's total.
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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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If you set out to be liked, you will accomplish nothing.
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Hope is no basis for a defense policy.
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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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Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.
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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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Life's greatest reward is life itself
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No great goal was ever easily achieved.
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The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.
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Marxists get up early to further their cause. We must get up even earlier to defend our freedom.
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The desire to win is born in most of us. The will to win is a matter of training. The manner of winning is a matter of honour.
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It is in a country's interests to keep faith with its allies. States in this sense are like people. If you have a reputation for exacting favors and not returning them, the favours dry up.
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Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.
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I don't want to fight any wars if you can get them off before we get there, you do it, but off they go.
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Let me give you my vision: A man's right to work as he will, to spend what he earns, to own property, to have the state as servant and not as master. These are the British inheritance. They are the essence of a free country, and on that freedom all of our other freedoms depend.
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I have a habit of comparing the phraseology of communiques . . . noting a certain similarity of words, a certain similarity of optimism . . . and a certain similarity in the lack of practical results during the ensuring years.
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The West as a whole in the early 1990s become obsessed with a 'peace dividend' that would be spent over and over again on any number of soft-hearted and sometimes soft-headed causes. Politicians forget that the only real peace dividend is peace.
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Socialism lays an bad egg by killing the capitalism that lays the golden eggs
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