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Europe is... a monument to the vanity of individuals, a programme whose inevitable destiny is failure.
Margaret Thatcher
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Margaret Thatcher
Age: 87 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 13
Died: 2013
Died: April 8
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Our aim is to make tax collecting a declining industry.
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I would not wish to be Prime Minister, dear.
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I am not hard - I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded
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To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
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I still want to play in it, maybe when I absolutely think I have no chance of playing in it my view might change but I doubt it because it just doesn't interest me.
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It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
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Communist regimes were not some unfortunate aberration, some historical deviation from a socialist ideal. They were the ultimate expression, unconstrained by democratic and electoral pressures, of what socialism is all about. ... In short, the state [is] everything and the individual nothing.
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There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it.
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Never believe that technology alone will allow America to prevail as a superpower.
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I am an ally of the United States. We believe the same things, we believe passionately in the same battle of ideas, we will defend them to the hilt. Never try to separate me from them.
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The West as a whole in the early 1990s become obsessed with a 'peace dividend' that would be spent over and over again on any number of soft-hearted and sometimes soft-headed causes. Politicians forget that the only real peace dividend is peace.
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