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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.
Margaret Thatcher
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Margaret Thatcher
Age: 87 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 13
Died: 2013
Died: April 8
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Yet the basic fact remains: every regulation represents a restriction of liberty, every regulation has a cost. That is why, like marriage (in the Prayer Book's words), regulation should not be enterprised, nor taken in hand, unadvisedly, lightly, or wantonly
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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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If you set out to be liked, you will accomplish nothing.
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If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage.
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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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It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.
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Young people ought not to be idle, it is very bad for them.
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Socialism lays an bad egg by killing the capitalism that lays the golden eggs
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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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The acid test of politics is not what you say at the hustings, but what you actually do in government.
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When you stop a dictator, there are always risks. But there are greater risks in not stopping a dictator.
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I'm happy as a dog with two dicks
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I have never knowingly made a non-controversial speech in my life.
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What happened in Russia in 1917 wasn't a revolution - it was a coup d'etat.
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The habit of ubiquitous interventionism, combining pinprick strikes by precision weapons with pious invocations of high principle, would lead us into endless difficulties. Interventions must be limited in number and overwhelming in their impact.
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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.
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