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A leader is someone who knows what they want to achieve and can communicate that.
Margaret Thatcher
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Margaret Thatcher
Age: 87 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 13
Died: 2013
Died: April 8
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In the same period that the Americans have lived under one constitution our French friends notched up five. A Punch cartoon has a 19th century Englishman asking a librarian for a copy of the French constitution, only to be told: 'I am sorry Sir, we do not stock periodicals.'
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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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The European single currency is bound to fail, economically, politically and indeed socially, though the timing, occasion and full consequences are all necessarily still unclear.
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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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The first step in calculating which way to go is to find out where you are.
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I believe we should continue to have a partnership of national states each retaining the right to protect its vital interests, but developing more effectively than at present the habit of working together.
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Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people's money. It's quite a characteristic of them.
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I can't bear Britain in decline. I just can't.
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Socialists don't like ordinary people choosing, for they might not choose Socialism.
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[On Ronald Reagan:] Poor dear, there's nothing between his ears.
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Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
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You can't buck the market.
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I owe a great deal to the church for everything in which I believe. I am very glad that I was brought up strictly. I was a very serious child. There was not a lot of fun and sparkle in my life.
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If your only opportunity is to be equal then it is not opportunity.
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I had the patriotic conviction that, given great leadership of the sort I heard from Winston Churchill in the radio broadcasts to which we listened, there was almost nothing that the British people could not do.
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Remember the 'Parable of the Talents' in the New Testament? Christ exhorts us to be the best we can be by developing our skills and abilities, by succeeding in all our tasks and endeavors. What better description can there be of capitalism?
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You can't lead from the crowd.
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You do not achieve anything without trouble, ever.
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Consensus is the absence of leadership.
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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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