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I don't want to fight any wars if you can get them off before we get there, you do it, but off they go.

Margaret Thatcher

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Margaret Thatcher
Age: 87 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 13
Died: 2013
Died: April 8
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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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We need to create a mood where it is everywhere thought morally right for as many people as possible to acquire capital.
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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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The battle for women's rights has largely been won. The days when they were demanded and discussed in strident tones should be gone forever. I hate those strident tones we hear from some Women's Libbers.
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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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Just rejoice at the news and congratulate our armed forces and the Marines. Rejoice!
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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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The Russians put guns before butter. We put just about everything before guns.
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The Third World is very much like the First World - just poorer: what works for the West will work for the rest as well.
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I believe our way of life is infinitely superior for every human being than any which the Communist creed can offer.
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I can't bear Britain in decline. I just can't.
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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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A man who, beyond the age of 26, finds himself on a bus can count himself as a failure.
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No theory of government was ever given a fairer test or a more prolonged experiment in a democratic country than democratic socialism received in Britain. Yet it was a miserable failure in every respect... To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukemia with leeches.
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