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Everything a politician promises at election time has to be paid for either by higher taxation or by borrowing.
Margaret Thatcher
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Margaret Thatcher
Age: 87 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 13
Died: 2013
Died: April 8
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I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.
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Life's greatest reward is life itself
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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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Ronald Reagan won the Cold War without firing a shot.
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There is no such thing as society.
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As a motive for terror, religion has more often than not required a good deal of lubrication by lucre.
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The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.
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Good Conservatives always pay their bills. And on time. Not like the Socialists who run up other people's bills.
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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.
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The Nuremburg trials were attacked at the time as 'victor's justice'. And this is precisely what they were - and were intended to be.
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When in August 1793 a British delegation showed their hosts a terrestrial globe, it turned into a diplomatic incident, for the Chinese were furious to see that their empire covered so little of it. For centuries the Chinese had thought of themselves as 'The Middle Kingdom', that is the centre of the civilized world. To see otherwise was a shock.
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Being powerful is a lot like being a woman: If you have to tell someone that you are, invariably, you are not.
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Bribing regimes to comply with requirements which they should have acknowledged in the first place is not a process that appeals to me.
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We had to do what we had to do - Britain is great again.
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I've got my teeth into him, and I'm not going to let go.
Margaret Thatcher
I owe nothing to Women's Lib.
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The Russians put guns before butter. We put just about everything before guns.
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I hate feminism. It is poison.
Margaret Thatcher
There's no such thing as society.
Margaret Thatcher
While the Soviet Union has imposed its rule on its neighbours and drawn an iron curtain between east and west, we in Great Britain have given freedom and independence to more than forty-eight countries whose populations now number more than a thousand million - a quarter of the world's total.
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