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John Gummer just did not have the political clout or credibility to rally the troops. I had appointed him as a sort of nightwatchman, but he seemed to have to sleep on the job.
Margaret Thatcher
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Margaret Thatcher
Age: 87 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 13
Died: 2013
Died: April 8
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If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage.
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I couldn't live without work. That's what makes me so sympathetic towards those people who are unemployed. I don't know how they live without working.
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I exercise my right as a free citizen to spend my own money in my own way, so that I can go on the day, the time, to the doctor I choose and get out fast.
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The secret of happiness is to live within your income and pay your bills on time.
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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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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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What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner 'I stand for consensus'?
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We intend freedom and justice to conquer. Yes, we do have a creed and we wish others to share it. But it is not part of our policy to impose our beliefs by force or threat of force.
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If you set out to be liked, you will accomplish nothing.
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The larger the slice taken by government, the smaller the cake available for everyone.
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Socialists don't like ordinary people choosing, for they might not choose Socialism.
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No theory of government was ever given a fairer test or a more prolonged experiment in a democratic country than democratic socialism received in Britain. Yet it was a miserable failure in every respect... To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukemia with leeches.
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I think perhaps we manage our revolutions much more quietly in this country.
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It is absolutely right that President Reagan considers SDI and thank goodness people considered nuclear research before the last war.
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All corporatism - even when practised in societies where hard work, enterprise and cooperation are as highly valued as in Korea - encourages inflexibility, discourages individual accountability, and risks magnifying errors by concealing them.
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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 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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