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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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A bully has no respect for a weakling and the way to stop a bully is not to be weak. The way to stop a bully from ever being a bully is to say: I'm as strong as you. Anything you do to me, I can do to you. We are going for nuclear and conventional disarmament but we're going about it in the right way.
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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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Yet the basic fact remains: every regulation represents a restriction of liberty, every regulation has a cost. That is why, like marriage (in the Prayer Book's words), regulation should not be enterprised, nor taken in hand, unadvisedly, lightly, or wantonly
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If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage.
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Our children need strong families raising them with sturdy virtues, not to be smothered in the cold arms of the state.
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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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Ronald Reagan knew his own mind. He had firm principles - and, I believe, right ones. He expounded them clearly, he acted upon them decisively.
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Consensus is the negation of leadership.
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The Labour Party believes in turning workers against owners we believe in turning workers into owners.
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Let our children grow tall and some taller than others if they have it in them to do so.
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If you set out to be liked, you will accomplish nothing.
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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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It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
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If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.
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We do not achieve happiness or salvation in isolation from each other but as members of society
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Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
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I will not change just to court popularity.
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I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.
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Just rejoice at the news and congratulate our armed forces and the Marines. Rejoice!
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