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[When asked how it felt to be a female prime minister:] I don't know: I've never experienced the alternative.
Margaret Thatcher
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Margaret Thatcher
Age: 87 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 13
Died: 2013
Died: April 8
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Socialists cry “Power to the people”, and raise the clenched fist as they say it. We all know what they really mean - power over people, power to the State.
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Freedom is not synonymous with an easy life. ... There are many difficult things about freedom: It does not give you safety, it creates moral dilemmas for you it requires self-discipline it imposes great responsibilities but such is the nature of Man and in such consists his glory and salvation.
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Let's make it clear: the Conservative Party has no plans for new NHS charges.
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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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Rooster, maybe well crows, but the eggs still bears the chicken.
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It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
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What happened in Russia in 1917 wasn't a revolution - it was a coup d'etat.
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We introduced the Community Charge. I still call it that. I like the Poles - I never had any intention of taxing them.
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I'm happy as a dog with two dicks
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It seems like cloud cuckoo land. If anyone is suggesting that I would go to Parliament and suggest the abolition of the Pound Sterling - no! We have made it quite clear that we will not have a single currency imposed upon us.
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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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Putting the World to Rights
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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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The larger the slice taken by government, the smaller the cake available for everyone.
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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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You can't lead from the crowd.
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We are not in politics to ignore peoples' worries, we are in politics to deal with them.
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I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.
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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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