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The mission of this government is much more than the promotion of economic progress. It is to renew the spirit and solidarity of the nation.
Margaret Thatcher
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Margaret Thatcher
Age: 87 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 13
Died: 2013
Died: April 8
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Business success isn't just a selfish aim. Profits spread beyond those who make them and bring jobs and prosperity.
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Ought we not to ask the media to agree among themselves a voluntary code of conduct, under which they would not say or show anything which could assist the terrorists' morale or their cause while the hijack lasted.
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There might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.
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Why do you climb philosophical hills? Because they are worth climbing . . . There are no hills to go down unless you start from the top.
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What happened in Russia in 1917 wasn't a revolution - it was a coup d'etat.
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A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
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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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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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A man may climb Everest for himself, but at the summit he plants his country's flag.
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Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing it's a day you've had everything to do and you've done it.
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Let our children grow tall and some taller than others if they have it in them to do so.
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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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Ladies and gentlemen, I stand before you tonight in my … chiffon evening gown, my face softly made up, my fair hair gently waved, the Iron Lady of the Western world. Me? A Cold War warrior? … Well, yes — if that is how they wish to interpret my defense of values of freedoms fundamental to our way of life.
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The Russians are bent on world dominance, and they are rapidly acquiring the means to become the most powerful imperial nation the world has seen. The men in the Soviet Politburo do not have to worry about the ebb and flow of public opinion. They put guns before butter, while we put just about everything before guns.
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I like Mr Gorbachev, we can do business together.
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Young people ought not to be idle, it is very bad for them.
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Remember, George, this is no time to go wobbly.
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Our judgement is that the presence of the Royal Marines garrison is sufficient deterrent against any possible aggression.
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Marxists get up early to further their cause. We must get up even earlier to defend our freedom.
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It's the Labour Government that have brought us record peacetime taxation. They've got the usual Socialist disease - they've run out of other people's money.
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