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As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations is a collection of notable statements made by the former British Prime Minister. The volume includes a selection of her most memorable quotes, providing a glimpse into her approach to governance, economic policy, and social issues. The quotations are drawn from various sources, including her speeches, interviews, and personal correspondence, and are presented in a format that captures the essence of her political career and character.
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“We should not underestimate the enormity of the task which lies ahead. But little can be achieved without sound money. It is the bedrock of sound government.”
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“I do not believe it is in the character of the British people to begrudge the lion's share to those who have genuinely played the lion's part. They are ready to recognise that those who create the wealth - and I mean not only material but intellectual wealth - enrich the whole nation.”
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“I suppose I was about 20, and a crowd of us had been to a village hop and came back to make midnight cups of coffee. I was in the kitchen helping to dish up and having a fierce argument with one of the boys in the crowd when someone else interrupted to say: 'Of course Margaret, you will go into politics won't you?' I stopped dead. Suddenly it was crystalised for me. I knew.”
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“Free enterprise has enabled the creative and the acquisitive urges of man to be given expression in a way which benefits all members of society. Let free enterprise fight back now, not for itself, but for all those who believe in freedom.”
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“Forget that I'm a woman. Forget the accusations that I am a Right Winger demanding privilege - I had precious little privilege in my early years.”
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“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.”
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“Our aim is to make tax collecting a declining industry.”
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“I owe a great deal to the church for everything in which I believe. I am very glad that I was brought up strictly. I was a very serious child. There was not a lot of fun and sparkle in my life.”
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“One of my favourite quotations is: 'That which thy father bequeathed thee, earn it anew, if thou wouldst possess it.'”
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“I went to Oxford University - but I've never let that hold me back.”
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“When hecklers stand up, I get a mental jump for joy. It gives me something to get my teeth into - and the audiences love it.”
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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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“I am an ally of the United States. We believe the same things, we believe passionately in the same battle of ideas, we will defend them to the hilt. Never try to separate me from them.”
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“The messages on our banners in 1979 - freedom, opportunity, family, enterprise, ownership - are now inscribed on the banners in Leipzig, Warsaw, Budapest and even Moscow.”
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“Fear is not the basis for foreign policy.”
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“Please don't use the word tough. People might get the impression that I don't care. And I do care, very deeply. Resilient, I think.”
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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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“I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.”
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“I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job.”
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“It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.”
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“Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.”
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“There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it.”
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“One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.”
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“You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.”
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“We were told our campaign wasn't sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment.”
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“The battle for women's rights has been largely won.”
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“The desire to win is born in most of us. The will to win is a matter of training. The manner of winning is a matter of honour.”
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“Most women defend themselves. It is the female of the species-it is the tigress and lioness in you which tends to defend when attacked.”
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“I wasn't lucky. I deserved it.”
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“Economics are the method; the object is to change the soul.”
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“We are not in politics to ignore peoples' worries, we are in politics to deal with them.”
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“Many of our troubles are due to the fact that our people turn to politicians for everything.”
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“Never in the history of human credit has so much been owed.”
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“It is not the business of politicians to please everyone.”
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“And what a prize we have to fight for: no less than the chance to banish from our land the dark divisive clouds of Marxist socialism.”
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“I was asked whether I was trying to restore Victorian values. I said straight out I was. And I am.”
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“If your only opportunity is to be equal then it is not opportunity.”
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“Marxists get up early to further their cause. We must get up even earlier to defend our freedom.”
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“I am not hard - I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded”
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“People are really rather afraid that this country might be rather swamped by people with a different culture.”
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“I believe we should continue to have a partnership of national states each retaining the right to protect its vital interests, but developing more effectively than at present the habit of working together.”
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“I was turned out because I said to Europe no, no, no. That no, no , no has now turned into yes, yes. Two yes's not three because he got the Social Chapter out and he's reserved his position on the single currency.”
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“When will Labour learn that you cannot build Jerusalem in Brussels.”
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“Yes, the Commission wants to increase its powers, Yes, it is a non-elected body and I do not want the Commission to increase its powers at the expense of the House, so of course we differ. The President of the Commission, Mr Delors, said at a press conference the other day that he wanted the European Parliament to be the democratic body of the Community. He wanted the Commission to be the Executive and he wanted the Council of Ministers to be the Senate. No! No! No!”
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“I can cope with nine of them, so they ought to be able to stand one of me. They could end the tiresomeness and stubbornness by giving me what I want.”
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“I have the money and they won't get their hands on it.”
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“We should not expect the state to appear in the guise of an extravagant good fairy at every christening, a loquacious companion at every stage of life's journey, and the unknown mourner at every funeral.”
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“I am not a consensus politician. Im a conviction politician.”
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“Their pitiless ideology only survives because it is maintained by force. But the day comes when the anger and frustration of the people is so great that force cannot contain it. Then the edifice cracks: the mortar crumbles.”
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