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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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To me consensus seems to be—the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies in search of something in which no-one believes, but to which no-one objects.
Just rejoice at that news and congratulate our forces and the marines... Rejoice.
Personal freedom and economic freedom are indivisible. You can't have one without the other. You can't lose one without losing the other.
They don't patronize me for being a woman. Nobody puts me down.
The community charge is a way of asking people to pay for what they vote for, and when they do, they will vote against Labour authorities.
When asked how she would describe her leadership style.
People from my sort of background needed Grammar schools to compete with children from privileged homes like Shirley Williams and Anthony Wedgwood Benn.
When you stop selecting by ability you have to select according to some other inevitably less satisfactory criterion.
The Path To Power (1995)
The main contribution one can make as a student to one's country in peace or wartime is to study hard and effectively.
The Path To Power (1995)
The nation is but an enlarged family.
I don't think there will be a woman Prime Minister in my lifetime.
I think male Prime Ministers one day will come back into fashion!
Despite the new look of these Communist parties, despite the softness of their voices, we should be on the watch for the teeth and the appetite of the wolf.
When you take into public ownership a profitable industry, the profits soon disappear. The goose that laid the golden eggs goes broody. State geese are not great layers.
Our friends from Eastern Europe reminded us that no force of arms, no walls, no barbed wire can for ever suppress the longing of the human heart for liberty and independence.
To those waiting with bated breath for that favourite media catchphrase, the U-turn, I have only one thing to say: You turn if you want to. [laughter] The lady's not for turning.
I fight on, I fight to win.
Douglas, Douglas, you would make Neville Chamberlain look like a warmonger.
The only way to do the best you can is to work as hard as you can.
Our policy is not built on envy or hatred, but on liberty for the individual man or woman.
The Path To Power (1995)
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