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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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The desire to win is born in most of us. The will to win is a matter of training. The manner of winning is a matter of honour.
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I have a habit of comparing the phraseology of communiques . . . noting a certain similarity of words, a certain similarity of optimism . . . and a certain similarity in the lack of practical results during the ensuring years.
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Just rejoice at the news and congratulate our armed forces and the Marines. Rejoice!
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I can cope with nine of them, so they ought to be able to stand one of me. They could end the tiresomeness and stubbornness by giving me what I want.
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A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
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I hate feminism. It is poison.
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I am not immortal, but I've got a lot left in me yet.
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In the same period that the Americans have lived under one constitution our French friends notched up five. A Punch cartoon has a 19th century Englishman asking a librarian for a copy of the French constitution, only to be told: 'I am sorry Sir, we do not stock periodicals.'
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Political success is a good deal pleasanter than political failure, but it too brings its problems.
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I think, historically, the term 'Thatcherism' will be seen as a compliment.
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We must not fall into the mistake of thinking that it is America that trades with Taiwan or Europe that trades with Asia. The truth is that it is American companies that trade with Taiwanese companies.
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(On The International Criminal Court) For the victors of the Cold War to submit to an unelected, unaccountable, and almost certainly hostile body such as that envisaged would be the ultimate irony.
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Whether at home or abroad, the task of statesman is to work with human nature warts and all, and to draw on instincts and even prejudices that can be turned to good purpose. It is never to try to recreate Mankind in a new image.
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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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The spirit of envy can destroy it can never build.
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Socialism lays an bad egg by killing the capitalism that lays the golden eggs
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You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.
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The European single currency is bound to fail, economically, politically and indeed socially, though the timing, occasion and full consequences are all necessarily still unclear.
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I exercise my right as a free citizen to spend my own money in my own way, so that I can go on the day, the time, to the doctor I choose and get out fast.
Margaret Thatcher
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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