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You will only succeed if you know that what you are doing is right and you know how to bring out the best in people.
Margaret Thatcher
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Margaret Thatcher
Age: 87 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 13
Died: 2013
Died: April 8
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What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner 'I stand for consensus'?
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I'm not a good butcher but I've had to learn to carve the joint. People expect a new look.
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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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There are dangers in consensus: it could be an attempt to satisfy people holding no particular views about anything. ... No great party can survive except on the basis of firm beliefs about what it wants to do.
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Whether at home or abroad, the task of statesman is to work with human nature warts and all, and to draw on instincts and even prejudices that can be turned to good purpose. It is never to try to recreate Mankind in a new image.
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The Russians put guns before butter. We put just about everything before guns.
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No Western nation has to build a wall round itself to keep its people in.
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To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.
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You do not achieve anything without trouble, ever.
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I think, historically, the term 'Thatcherism' will be seen as a compliment.
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When I look at him [Edward Heath] and he looks at me, I don't feel that it is a man looking at a woman. More like a woman being looked at by another woman.
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The battle for women's rights has largely been won. The days when they were demanded and discussed in strident tones should be gone forever. I hate those strident tones we hear from some Women's Libbers.
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I want to get totally rid of class distinction. As someone put it one of the papers this morning: Marks and Spencer have triumphed over Karl Marx and Engels.
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To me consensus seems to be - the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies in search of something in which no-one believes, but to which no-one objects.
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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.
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The government has no money of its own. It's all your money.
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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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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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I was turned out because I said to Europe no, no, no. That no, no , no has now turned into yes, yes. Two yes's not three because he got the Social Chapter out and he's reserved his position on the single currency.
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A leader is someone who knows what they want to achieve and can communicate that.
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