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The Russians put guns before butter. We put just about everything before guns.
Margaret Thatcher
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Margaret Thatcher
Age: 87 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 13
Died: 2013
Died: April 8
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Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
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What happened in Russia in 1917 wasn't a revolution - it was a coup d'etat.
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Never believe that technology alone will allow America to prevail as a superpower.
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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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A leader is someone who knows what they want to achieve and can communicate that.
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During my lifetime most of the problems the world has faced have come, in one fashion or another, from mainland Europe and the solution from outside it.
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Our judgement is that the presence of the Royal Marines garrison is sufficient deterrent against any possible aggression.
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Working hard may not make you rich, but it should make you successful.
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Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.
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The Third World is very much like the First World - just poorer: what works for the West will work for the rest as well.
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We want a society in which we are free to make choices, to make mistakes, to be generous and compassionate. That is what we mean by a moral society - not a society in which the State is responsible for everything, and no one is responsible for the State.
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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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When government does its job properly people are free to do theirs.
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I had the patriotic conviction that, given great leadership of the sort I heard from Winston Churchill in the radio broadcasts to which we listened, there was almost nothing that the British people could not do.
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This business of the working class is on its way out I think. After all, aren't I working class? I work jolly hard, I can tell you.
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There are dangers in consensus: it could be an attempt to satisfy people holding no particular views about anything. ... No great party can survive except on the basis of firm beliefs about what it wants to do.
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I want to get totally rid of class distinction. As someone put it one of the papers this morning: Marks and Spencer have triumphed over Karl Marx and Engels.
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There is no such thing as society.
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