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In those days one advantage of being a woman was that there was a basic courtesy towards us on which we could draw - something which today's feminists have largely dissipated.
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 love his music because he was my generation. But then again, Elvis is everyone's generation, and he always will be.
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Freedom under the law must never be taken for granted.
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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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Just rejoice at the news and congratulate our armed forces and the Marines. Rejoice!
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Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
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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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Consensus is the negation of leadership.
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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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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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Hope is no basis for a defense policy.
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If you want to get something said in the politics tell a man. If you want to get something done in the politics tell a woman
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There is no such thing as society.
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I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.
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(On The International Criminal Court) For the victors of the Cold War to submit to an unelected, unaccountable, and almost certainly hostile body such as that envisaged would be the ultimate irony.
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