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The acid test of politics is not what you say at the hustings, but what you actually do in government.
Margaret Thatcher
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Margaret Thatcher
Age: 87 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 13
Died: 2013
Died: April 8
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It is no exaggeration to describe plain English as a fundamental tool of government.
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I have the money and they won't get their hands on it.
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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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The patronage state is an arrogant state. It assumes it can spend your money better than you do. Yet it expects you to work for it in the first place.
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For the Christian there can be no social or political panaceas, no easy escapes from personal responsibility achieved by collectivising guilt or virtue. The true ends of temporal life lie beyond it, and, though the tyrannical State may diminish virtue, the benevolent State cannot procure it.
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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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We introduced the Community Charge. I still call it that. I like the Poles - I never had any intention of taxing them.
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The West as a whole in the early 1990s become obsessed with a 'peace dividend' that would be spent over and over again on any number of soft-hearted and sometimes soft-headed causes. Politicians forget that the only real peace dividend is peace.
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I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.
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Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
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When I look at him [Edward Heath] and he looks at me, I don't feel that it is a man looking at a woman. More like a woman being looked at by another woman.
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Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
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A leader is someone who knows what they want to achieve and can communicate that.
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There are always dangers about. Therefore you must always keep your defences strong.
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