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Our judgement is that the presence of the Royal Marines garrison is sufficient deterrent against any possible aggression.
Margaret Thatcher
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Margaret Thatcher
Age: 87 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 13
Died: 2013
Died: April 8
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This business of the working class is on its way out I think. After all, aren't I working class? I work jolly hard, I can tell you.
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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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Never believe that technology alone will allow America to prevail as a superpower.
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When you hold back the successful, you penalize those who need help.
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When will Labour learn that you cannot build Jerusalem in Brussels.
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What we should grasp, however, from the lessons of European history is that, first, there is nothing necessarily benevolent about programmes of European integration second, the desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom and third, European unity has been tried before, and the outcome was far from happy.
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I might have preferred iron - but bronze will do. It won't rust. This time I hope, the head will stay on.
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I love his music because he was my generation. But then again, Elvis is everyone's generation, and he always will be.
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Personal abuse is no substitute for policy. It signals panic.
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We have become a grandmother.
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Whether manufactured by black, white, brown or yellow hands, a widget remains a widget – and it will be bought anywhere if the price and quality are right. The market is a more powerful and more reliable liberating force than government can ever be.
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It is in a country's interests to keep faith with its allies. States in this sense are like people. If you have a reputation for exacting favors and not returning them, the favours dry up.
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Our aim is to make tax collecting a declining industry.
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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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[On Ronald Reagan:] Poor dear, there's nothing between his ears.
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Peace is hard work and we must not allow people to forget it.
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I wasn't lucky. I deserved it.
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