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When hecklers stand up, I get a mental jump for joy. It gives me something to get my teeth into - and the audiences love it.
Margaret Thatcher
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Margaret Thatcher
Age: 87 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 13
Died: 2013
Died: April 8
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[On George H.W. Bush:] By 1990 I had learned that I had to defer to him in conversation and not to stint the praise. If that was what was necessary to secure Britain's interests and influence, I had no hesitation in eating a little humble pie.
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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 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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I would not wish to be Prime Minister, dear.
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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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I love his music because he was my generation. But then again, Elvis is everyone's generation, and he always will be.
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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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Political success is a good deal pleasanter than political failure, but it too brings its problems.
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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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Marxists get up early to further their cause. We must get up even earlier to defend our freedom.
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I calculate that I was responsible for proposing the elevation to the Lords of some 214 of its present numbers.
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Freedom is not synonymous with an easy life. ... There are many difficult things about freedom: It does not give you safety, it creates moral dilemmas for you it requires self-discipline it imposes great responsibilities but such is the nature of Man and in such consists his glory and salvation.
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It seems like cloud cuckoo land. If anyone is suggesting that I would go to Parliament and suggest the abolition of the Pound Sterling - no! We have made it quite clear that we will not have a single currency imposed upon us.
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Isn't a policy of conventional weapons, with the terrible bombs raining down, with the missiles, with the aircraft, with the submarines, with the torpedoes, with the tanks, with chemical weapons - isn't that based on the possibility of threat?
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It is absolutely right that President Reagan considers SDI and thank goodness people considered nuclear research before the last war.
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Constitutions have to be written on hearts, not just paper.
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I couldn't live without work. That's what makes me so sympathetic towards those people who are unemployed. I don't know how they live without working.
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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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Peace is hard work and we must not allow people to forget it.
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I'm back... and you knew I was coming. On my way here I passed a cinema with the sign 'The Mummy Returns'.
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