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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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Socialists don't like ordinary people choosing, for they might not choose Socialism.
Oh, but you know, you do not achieve anything without trouble, ever.
Let me say this, if you want someone weak you don't want me, there are plenty of others to choose from.
I might have preferred iron, but bronze will do. It won't rust. And, this time I hope, the head will stay on.
When I'm out of politics I'm going to run a business, it'll be called 'rent-a-spine'.
Children who need to be taught to respect traditional moral values are being taught that they have an inalienable right to be gay.
You will quite often hear people say: “Well look, she is the best man in politics,” and I say: “Oh no, much better than that; she is the best woman.”
I, along with something like 5 million other people, insure to enable me to go into hospital on the day I want; at the time I want, and with a doctor I want.
The principle that adequate health care should be provided for all, regardless of ability to pay, must be the foundation of any arrangements for financing the Health Service.
All that is the philosophy of Socialism. We reject it utterly for, however well-intended, it leads in one direction only: to the erosion and finally the destruction of the democratic way of life.
Failure? Do you remember what Queen Victoria once said? “Failure—the possibilities do not exist”.
Which is the one most likely to get results? The one who says, come on you can do it. That's me.
I am also for attente, for wanting to see results; for not letting down our guard; for keeping our powder dry.
They are pointing to the steady and remorseless expansion of the Socialist State.
I am the rebel head of an establishment government.
It is a great night. It is the end of Socialism.
You cannot build a great nation or brotherhood of man by spreading envy or hatred.
The Path To Power (1995)
The violence and intimidation we have seen should never have happened. It is the work of extremists. It is the enemy within.
In my lifetime all our problems have come from mainland Europe and all the solutions have come from the English-speaking nations across the world.
It is a fight about the very foundations of the social order. It is a crusade not merely to put a temporary brake on Socialism, but to stop its onward march once and for all.
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