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Political success is a good deal pleasanter than political failure, but it too brings its problems.
Margaret Thatcher
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Margaret Thatcher
Age: 87 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 13
Died: 2013
Died: April 8
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All attempts to destroy democracy by terrorism will fail. It must be business as usual.
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The Russians are bent on world dominance, and they are rapidly acquiring the means to become the most powerful imperial nation the world has seen. The men in the Soviet Politburo do not have to worry about the ebb and flow of public opinion. They put guns before butter, while we put just about everything before guns.
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Business success isn't just a selfish aim. Profits spread beyond those who make them and bring jobs and prosperity.
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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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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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I can't bear Britain in decline. I just can't.
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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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I am not immortal, but I've got a lot left in me yet.
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Bribing regimes to comply with requirements which they should have acknowledged in the first place is not a process that appeals to me.
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Being powerful is a lot like being a woman: If you have to tell someone that you are, invariably, you are not.
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Any leader has to have a certain amount of steel in them, so I am not that put out being called the Iron Lady.
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You can't lead from the crowd.
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When will Labour learn that you cannot build Jerusalem in Brussels.
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I started out in life with two great advantages: No money and good parents.
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For Dicey, writing in 1885, and for me reading him some seventy years later, the rule of law still had a very English, or at least Anglo-Saxon, feel to it. It was later, through Hayek's masterpieces The Constitution of Liberty and Law, Legislation and Liberty that I really came to think this principle as having wider application.
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When government does its job properly people are free to do theirs.
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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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