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We do not believe that if you cut back what government does you diminish its authority. On the contrary, a government that did less, and therefore did better, would strengthen its authority.
Margaret Thatcher
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Margaret Thatcher
Age: 87 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 13
Died: 2013
Died: April 8
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Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy.
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Free enterprise has enabled the creative and the acquisitive urges of man to be given expression in a way which benefits all members of society. Let free enterprise fight back now, not for itself, but for all those who believe in freedom.
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The patronage state is an arrogant state. It assumes it can spend your money better than you do. Yet it expects you to work for it in the first place.
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You can't buck the market.
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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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No generation has a free hold on this earth. All we have is a life tenancy-with a full repairing lease.
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