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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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There are too few rich and too few profits.
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Freedom will destroy itself if it is not exercised within some sort of moral framework, some body of shared beliefs, some spiritual heritage transmitted through the Church, the family, and the school.
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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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No theory of government was ever given a fairer test or a more prolonged experiment in a democratic country than democratic socialism received in Britain. Yet it was a miserable failure in every respect... To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukemia with leeches.
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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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A man may climb Everest for himself, but at the summit he plants his country's flag.
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I owe nothing to Women's Lib.
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Constitutions have to be written on hearts, not just paper.
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I was asked whether I was trying to restore Victorian values. I said straight out I was. And I am.
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Let us, then, draw together in the name, not of jingoism, but of justice
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We do not achieve happiness or salvation in isolation from each other but as members of society
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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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My first guiding principle is this: willing and active co-operation between independent sovereign states. Europe will be stronger precisely because it has France as France, Spain as Spain, Britain as Britain, each with its own customs, traditions and identity. It would be folly to try to fit them into some sort of identikit European personality.
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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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When government does its job properly people are free to do theirs.
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We must not fall into the mistake of thinking that it is America that trades with Taiwan or Europe that trades with Asia. The truth is that it is American companies that trade with Taiwanese companies.
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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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