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Let's make it clear: the Conservative Party has no plans for new NHS charges.

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Margaret Thatcher
Age: 87 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 13
Died: 2013
Died: April 8
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The Russians put guns before butter. We put just about everything before guns.
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I don't think any woman in power really has a happy life unless she's got a large number of women friends ... because you sometimes must go and sit down and let down your hair with someone you can trust totally.
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It used to be about trying to do something. Now it's about trying to be someone.
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The National Health Service is safe with us. The principle of adequate healthcare should be provided for all regardless of ability to pay must be the function of any arrangements for financing the NHS. We stand by that.
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The secret of happiness is to live within your income and pay your bills on time.
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Socialists cry “Power to the people”, and raise the clenched fist as they say it. We all know what they really mean - power over people, power to the State.
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We are not in politics to ignore peoples' worries, we are in politics to deal with them.
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Young people ought not to be idle, it is very bad for them.
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Freedom under the law must never be taken for granted.
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I think perhaps we manage our revolutions much more quietly in this country.
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The choice facing the nation is between two totally different ways of life. And what a prize we have to fight for: no less than the chance to banish from our land the dark, divisive clouds of Marxist socialism and bring together men and women from all walks of life who share a belief in freedom.
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I was asked whether I was trying to restore Victorian values. I said straight out I was. And I am.
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I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.
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Ronald Reagan won the Cold War without firing a shot.
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Hope is no basis for a defense policy.
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I'm standing up for the right of self-determination. I'm standing up for our territory. I'm standing up for our people. I'm standing up for international law. I'm standing up for all those territories - those small territories and peoples the world over - who, if someone doesn't stand up and say to an invader 'enough, stop', would be at risk.
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