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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.
Margaret Thatcher
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Margaret Thatcher
Age: 87 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 13
Died: 2013
Died: April 8
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I have the money and they won't get their hands on it.
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I can't bear Britain in decline. I just can't.
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As prime minister, I worked closely with Ronald Reagan for eight of the most important years of all our lives. We talked regularly both before and after his presidency. And I have had time and cause to reflect on what made him a great president.
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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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I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.
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All corporatism - even when practised in societies where hard work, enterprise and cooperation are as highly valued as in Korea - encourages inflexibility, discourages individual accountability, and risks magnifying errors by concealing them.
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Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
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Political success is a good deal pleasanter than political failure, but it too brings its problems.
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I have never knowingly made a non-controversial speech in my life.
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No great goal was ever easily achieved.
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We do not believe that if you cut back what government does you diminish its authority. On the contrary, a government that did less, and therefore did better, would strengthen its authority.
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We had to do what we had to do - Britain is great again.
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