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Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher (13 October 1925 – 8 April 2013) was a British politician and stateswoman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. She was the first female British prime minister and the longest-serving British prime minister of the 20th century.
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Economics are the method; the object is to change the heart and soul.
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.
For every idealistic peacemaker willing to renounce his self-defence in favour of a weapons-free world, there is at least one warmaker anxious to exploit the other's good intentions.
Peace, freedom and justice are only to be found where people are prepared to defend them.
We must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.
We shall have to learn again to be one nation, or one day we shall be no nation.
We believe that everyone has the right to be unequal but to us every human being is equally important.
In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman.
We fly the British flag, not these awful things you are putting on tails.
My job is to stop Britain from going red.
Gentlemen, there is nothing sweeter than success, and you boys have got it!
I never confused the leader page of the Guardian with vox populi.
When people are free to choose, they choose freedom.
Help me to liberate those who create wealth—and to make the wreckers run for cover.
They’ve got the usual Socialist disease – they’ve run out of other people's money.
It is that cycle that we have set out to break.
Never believe that technology alone will allow America to prevail as a superpower.
The colour of someone's skin should not determine his or her political rights.
When the Norman Fowlers of this world believe that they can afford to rebel, you know that things are bad.
I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air—the rather nauseating stench of appeasement.
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