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If you are guided by opinion polls, you are not practicing leadership -- you are practicing followership.
Margaret Thatcher
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Margaret Thatcher
Age: 87 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 13
Died: 2013
Died: April 8
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The Prime Minister is stealing our clothes but he is going to look pretty ridiculous walking around in mine.
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Please don't use the word tough. People might get the impression that I don't care. And I do care, very deeply. Resilient, I think.
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I want a capital-earning democracy. Every man and woman a capitalist. Housing is the start. If you're a man or woman of property, you've got something. So every man a capitalist, and every man a man of property.
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We are a British nation with British characteristics. Every country can take some small minorities and in many ways they add to the richness and variety of this country. The moment the minority threatens to become a big one, people get frightened.
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I think, historically, the term 'Thatcherism' will be seen as a compliment.
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There might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.
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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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[On Ronald Reagan:] Poor dear, there's nothing between his ears.
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[On being asked how many Mrs. Thatchers there were:] Oh, three at least. There is the intellectual one, the intuitive one and the one at home.
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Dictators can be deterred, they can be crushed - but they can never be appeased.
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I started out in life with two great advantages: No money and good parents.
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The National Health Service is safe with us. The principle of adequate healthcare should be provided for all regardless of ability to pay must be the function of any arrangements for financing the NHS. We stand by that.
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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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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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Working hard may not make you rich, but it should make you successful.
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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.
Margaret Thatcher
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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There are always dangers about. Therefore you must always keep your defences strong.
Margaret Thatcher
What we should grasp, however, from the lessons of European history is that, first, there is nothing necessarily benevolent about programmes of European integration second, the desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom and third, European unity has been tried before, and the outcome was far from happy.
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Leadership is about having principles. A leader must have a vision and principles that will endure for all time and must always be true to these principles, applying them to changing circumstances
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