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Margaret Thatcher

2 months

Wogan: "They don't seem to make any concession to the fact that you're a woman." Thatcher: "No. Why should they? I don't make any concession to the fact that they're men."😂

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Margaret Thatcher

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9 months

If the right honourable gentleman is suggesting that we ever get to a position where we cannot return illegal immigrants to their country of origin, then he is proposing international chaos.

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Margaret Thatcher

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8 months

If you ever get trial by television or guilt by accusation, that day freedom dies.

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Margaret Thatcher

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2 years

Europe will be stronger precisely because it has France as France, Spain as Spain, and Britain as Britain—each with its own customs, traditions and identity. It would be folly to try to fit them into some identikit European personality.

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Margaret Thatcher

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It is a little known fact that Margaret Thatcher also visited AIDS patients at the very hospital Princess Diana attended. There are no pictures, however, as the Prime Minister did not wish to look like she was "trying to upstage her". The below is an excerpt of Thatcher's visit…

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Princess Diana shook hands with an AIDS patient without gloves in 1991. At the time, this act was groundbreaking because many people didn't fully understand how AIDS was spread. Consequently, those with the disease often had to spend time alone in AIDS wards. Diana visited…

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Margaret Thatcher

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1 year

Wogan: "They don't seem to make any concession to the fact that you're a woman." Thatcher: "No. Why should they? I don't make any concession to the fact that they're men."😂

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Margaret Thatcher

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2 years

Britain isn't just another country. We've never been just another country...It was Britain who stood when everyone else surrendered.

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Margaret Thatcher

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2 years

Socialists don't like ordinary people choosing, for they might not choose socialism.

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Margaret Thatcher

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1 year

Be very wary of high taxes. Any government that has high taxation is giving itself more powers and the people less.

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Margaret Thatcher

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6 months

People are really rather afraid that this country might be rather swamped by people with a different culture. And you know, the British character has done so much for democracy, for law and done so much throughout the world that if there is any fear that it might be swamped,…

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Margaret Thatcher

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2 years

I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.

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Margaret Thatcher

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2 years

Wogan: "They don't seem to make any concession to the fact that you're a woman." Thatcher: "No. Why should they? I don't make any concession to the fact that they're men." 😂 #InternationalWomensDay

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Margaret Thatcher

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2 years

We shall oppose politicians, national or local, who want to interfere in the operational independence of the police. There is no place for politics in policing.

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Margaret Thatcher

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1 year

We didn't vote to go into a European Economic Community in order to give up a large part of our parliamentary sovereignty to a European bureaucracy of non-elected people. Nor did we go into Europe to have a European court tell ours what to do.

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Margaret Thatcher

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1 year

Our first duty to freedom is to defend our own.

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Margaret Thatcher

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10 months

Yes, there are some people who want a federal Europe, and they would be prepared to sacrifice a large part of our parliamentary democracy to get it. There is no doubt that the Leader of the Opposition desperately yearns for the approval of those who are federalists, including…

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Margaret Thatcher

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1 year

When I'm out of politics I'm going to run a business. It will be called 'Rent-A-Spine'.

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Margaret Thatcher

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2 years

Let us never forget this fundamental truth: the state has no source of money other than the money people earn themselves. It is no good thinking that someone else will pay. That "someone else" is you. There is no such thing as public money, there is only taxpayers' money.

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2 years

A society which puts a higher value on state handouts to its able-bodied citizens than on measures to protect those citizens from internal crime and external threats is one which risks becoming decadent.

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Margaret Thatcher

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2 years

Let me give you my vision: A man's right to work as he will, to spend what he earns, to own property, to have the state as servant and not as master—these are the British inheritance. They are the essence of a free economy, and on that freedom all our other freedoms depend.

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Margaret Thatcher

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7 months

#OnThisDay in 1984, the IRA attempted to assassinate members of the British government at the Grand Hotel in Brighton. Five people were killed and a further 31 were injured. Margaret Thatcher narrowly escaped the explosion. Thatcher was greatly lauded for her commitment to…

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Margaret Thatcher

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2 years

It is easier to tell other people what to do about it than it is to sort it out yourself.

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Margaret Thatcher

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1 year

Britain needs an Iron Lady.

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Margaret Thatcher

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I believe I represent an attitude; an approach. And I believe that approach is borne out by the development of my own life, going to an ordinary state school and having no privileges at all, except perhaps the ones which count most: a good home background with parents who are…

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Margaret Thatcher

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1 year

"'Tis a good thing to read something before you comment on it usually." -Margaret Thatcher to Alastair Campbell @campbellclaret

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Margaret Thatcher

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11 months

Tony Blair has won three consecutive terms since. But here's why Thatcher's is more remarkable: Thatcher 1979 election—13,697,923 votes 1983 election—13,012,316 votes 1987 election—13,760,583 votes Blair 1997 election—13,518,167 votes 2001 election—10,724,953 votes 2005…

Margaret Thatcher

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#OnThisDay in 1987, Margaret Thatcher became the first British Prime Minister in 160 years to win three consecutive terms of office. "We have a great deal of work to do, so no one must slack. You can have a marvellous party tonight...but on Monday we've got a big job to do."

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Margaret Thatcher

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2 years

The rule of law must prevail over the rule of the mob.

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Margaret Thatcher

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1 year

*Interviewer attempts to interrupt Mrs. Thatcher* "Please let me give the good news because you're always willing to give the bad and you don't chase the good."

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Margaret Thatcher

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2 years

A man's right to work as he will, to spend what he earns, to own property, to have the State as servant and not as master—these are the British inheritance.

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Margaret Thatcher

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11 months

Put your savings in your socks and they'd nationalise socks.

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Margaret Thatcher

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2 years

You all know full well that if you produce too much of something, its value will fall. That's elementary. Money is just the same. If you print too much of it, its value will fall ... It isn't a newfangled theory. It is as essential as the law of gravity.

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Margaret Thatcher

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1 year

Socialists say “equality.” What they mean is “levelling down”. Socialists say “publicly owned”. What they mean is “state controlled”. Socialists say “government aid”. What they mean is “taxpayers' aid”. Socialists say “social justice”. What they mean is “selective justice”.

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Nowadays socialism is often dressed up as environmentalism, feminism, or international concern for human rights. All sound good in the abstract. But scratch the surface and you'll likely discover anti-capitalism, patronising quotas, and intrusions upon the sovereignty of nations.

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Margaret Thatcher

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9 months

We're marvellous in Britain. We've saved the world.

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Margaret Thatcher

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1 month

Believe you me, from some of the diktats that have come from the [European] Commission, they are really thirsty for power. They like it. They're non-elected. They can come and make decisions by a simple majority. But this is not for a proud nation. There's nothing old-fashioned…

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Margaret Thatcher

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4 months

"Someone once asked me have I had my face lifted. I said it hadn't dropped yet." —Margaret Thatcher, Behind the Scenes Pre-Interview Footage for ITN (1984)

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Margaret Thatcher

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7 months

I am just old enough to remember Nazism, and I remember it especially because my father was a rotarian. All of a sudden in 1938, we had a request from someone in Austria who wrote to my father and said, "The Nazis have entered Austria and those of us who happen to be Jewish are…

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Margaret Thatcher

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5 months

These days if you want lower tax, it's called right-wing. If you support the police, it's called right-wing. If you say you must uphold the rule of law, it's called right-wing. If you say you want to sell council houses and you want increased owner-occupation, it's called…

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Margaret Thatcher

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10 months

I would have loved to have held Hong Kong island for Britain. It would've been an extra reassurance because people could see then that there would be a comparison between the way we did things and the way mainland China did things. Look at the map. We had no option...There's no…

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Today marks the 26th anniversary of a very sad day: when the United Kingdom gave away British Hong Kong to China. The return of Hong Kong to China has allowed Beijing to crack down on HK’s freedoms whilst violating its own "one country, two systems” policy.

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Margaret Thatcher

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2 years

You may have noticed there are many people who just can't bear good news. It's a sort of infection of the spirit and there's a lot of it about. In the eyes of these hand-wringing merchants of gloom and despondency, everything that Britain does is wrong.

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Margaret Thatcher

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2 years

Wars are not caused by the build up of weapons. They are caused when an aggressor believes he can achieve his objectives at an acceptable price.

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Socialists don't like ordinary people choosing, for they might not choose socialism.

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Margaret Thatcher

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6 months

I'm not concerned with diplomacy. I'm concerned with fighting terrorism. That's my duty to the people of Britain. That is the duty I uphold.

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Margaret Thatcher

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6 months

Wars are not caused by the build up of weapons. They are caused when an aggressor believes he can achieve his objectives at an acceptable price. The war of 1939 was not caused by an arms race. It sprang from a tyrant's belief that other countries lacked the means and the will to…

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1 year

"To borrow and to borrow and to borrow" is not Macbeth with a heavy cold—it is Labour Party policy.

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Margaret Thatcher

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11 months

You must in fact keep your spending within your income. People understand that, and it's a great mistake to think they want more and more spending when they know full well it will either drive up the interest rate, or it will mean they pay extra taxes.

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If politicians or bureaucrats are given power that is unaccountable and unrestrained, they will, in the long run, be as corrupt as they can get away with. That's the best possible argument for limited government.

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1 year

I think sometimes a Prime Minister should be intimidating. There's not much point in being a weak, floppy thing in the chair, is there?

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Margaret Thatcher

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1 year

Those who imagine that a politician would make a better figurehead than a hereditary monarch ought perhaps to make the acquaintance of more politicians.

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Margaret Thatcher

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1 year

This account was started a year ago today. It has been a labour of love to try and post fresh and unique Thatcher moments nearly every day since. The messages are timeless and often just as applicable today as they were then. Thank you all for the support. #MyTwitterAnniversary

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Margaret Thatcher

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2 years

I don't think the people necessarily want consensus. They want strong, firm leadership and a clear sense of purpose and direction.

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Margaret Thatcher

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6 months

On 30th October 1990, Margaret Thatcher gives her infamous "No. No. No." speech, leading to Geoffrey Howe's resignation the next day, and which arguably precipitated her downfall the following month. In the speech, Thatcher goes off script and outrightly rejects Britain's…

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Margaret Thatcher

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9 months

More Brits think Thatcher changed Britain for the better than worse. via @IpsosUK

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4 months

"I want to go and see Pearl Harbour." "It's dark." "I have a torch." "The ground is very uneven and we haven't got a suitable vehicle." "I'll walk. I'm British."

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1 year

When you reduce tax you don't necessarily reduce the yield because the incentive itself means that people work harder, get more income, and therefore you get the same tax yield from a greater amount of income although the rates are lower.

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I believe passionately in our way of life. If we were asked to say what is the characteristic of Britain, everyone would say the same: We are a free country and we're going to stay that way. We take it for granted. It should not be taken for granted.

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They think it's attractive to offer to the young a future wholly controlled by the operation of the socialist state. What is their message? To each his own pigeonhole. From each, total conformity. We utterly reject it.

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1 year

With every day that passes, modern Russia behaves more and more like the old Soviet Union: attempts to split Europe from the United States; deep hostility to the use of Western power; and brutal disregard for the rights of non-Russians who by misfortune live in the Russian empire

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1 year

We will not take money in taxes from those who work hard and pay it out to those who don't. We are trying to roll back the tide of socialism.

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4 months

After I left office, my successor did some things which were flatly against Conservative policy. For example, he cut some of the tax reliefs on people buying a house. They had relief on the money they had to pay in repaying their loans ... That struck at the very heart of my…

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9 months

"I do like arguing, absolutely flatly contrary to the image. We argue things out and that is the way we come to a conclusion." "But in the end they should agree with you?" "In the end, we come to the right conclusion."😂

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1 year

I'm dubbed as a reactionary. 'Maggie Thatcher, reactionary'. Well, there's a lot to react against.

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1 month

#OnThisDay 11 years ago, Britain lost its greatest peacetime prime minister, and the longest-serving since 1827, Margaret Thatcher. "Of course, no human mind, nor indeed any conceivable computer, can calculate the sum total of my career in politics in terms of happiness,…

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2 years

Governments are there to serve the liberties of the people, not to restrict them.

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1 year

It is possible to browbeat or cajole people to accept restrictions on their basic freedoms for a while. But deep down there is something in every man or woman which longs with an unquenchable longing to speak and act freely.

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8 months

Now you see why I fight these people.

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8 months

Never be bewitched by public opinion polls. They change very quickly. Set out your political principles, explain what you believe and why, the policies which flow from them, and how you're going to implement them.

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1 year

#OnThisDay 10 years ago, Britain lost its greatest peacetime Prime Minister and freedom fighter, Margaret Thatcher.

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7 months

Countries are not rich in proportion to their natural resources. If they were, Russia would now be the richest country in the world. Angola would be very rich, and there are many other countries which have a lot of natural resources but they have not had an enterprise economy to…

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8 months

Governments do not create the wealth. They consume it. It is the people who create the wealth and they need the incentive of tax cuts to do it.

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6 months

I was there for 11 and a half years—they were the 11 and a half most exciting years of my life. They were exciting for Britain. They brought Britain's reputation up. Britain meant something in the world when I left office and that mattered to me more than anything else.

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2 years

When the state does everything for you, it will soon take everything from you. You will then have no basis for personal freedom, political freedom, or economic freedom.

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2 years

There isn't a pot of gold to draw on. There is either your own extra effort, or you're taking something from your fellow citizens.

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1 year

Socialists don't like people to do things for themselves. Socialists like to get people dependent on the state. You will never build a great society that way.

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3 months

The single biggest intellectual error during my lifetime has been to confuse freedom with equality. In fact, equality—being an unnatural condition which can only be enforced by the state—is usually the enemy of liberty.

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1 year

What the Labour Party of today wants is: housing municipalised, industry nationalised, the police service politicised, the judiciary radicalised, union membership tyrannised and above all—and most serious of all—our defences neutralised.

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20 days

"The only politician I've ever met of whom I would say, 'That was a first-rate mind' was Margaret Thatcher. She's just unbelievably sharp. She has one of those intelligences both very sharp and also pretty intolerant of people who aren't. So you had to be really on your…

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5 months

Our first duty to freedom is to defend our own.

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6 months

The decision to force out a party leader is normally a punishment for failure. But Mrs Thatcher had won all her three elections, and been Prime Minister for longer than anyone else in the 20th century. (She had even won the first ballot of the leadership contest, though not by a…

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1 year

All too often the planners cut the heart out of our cities. They swept aside familiar city centres that had grown up over centuries. They replaced them with a wedge of tower blocks, linking expressways, token patches of grass and windswept piazzas where pedestrians fear to tread.

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When I took over in Britain the top rate of tax on earned income was 83% and on investment income 98%... We had to take away many of the regulations: There were controls on prices, controls on incomes, controls on dividends, controls on foreign exchange—all of this and the top…

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29 days

A country can't support terrorism and still expect to be treated as a member of the international community. To take hostages is to exclude yourself from the civilised world.

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9 months

I can’t bear Britain in decline. I just can’t. We who either defeated or rescued half Europe, who kept half Europe free, when otherwise it would be in chains. And look at us now.

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"Do you like being a woman?" "I enjoy being a woman. I've never tried the alternative and I don't want to." "The former President [of France] Mitterrand said you had the lips of Marilyn Monroe and the eyes of Caligula." "—and the will of an English woman!"

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Freedom can also be lost little by little, by what the Fabians call the doctrine of gradualness. A little more taxation here, a little more government expenditure there, year after year until the people are no longer the masters of the state but its servants.

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2 years

If a government does everything for you, you'll soon find it can only do it by taking everything away from you.

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9 months

The British police are the limbs of the law. They must never become the strong arms of political parties. They serve only the rule of law.

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If the problem is you're borrowing too much, that arises because you're spending too much. If you're spending too much, you must reduce your spending...It's a very silly person that says, "I'm going bankrupt the way I am but I can't afford to cut so don't ask me."

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If it is one against 48, I'm very sorry for the 48.

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Illegal immigrants have to be returned to their country of origin. It is the custom of international law that such illegal immigrants are received back.

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Britain isn't just another country. We've never been just another country ... It was Britain who stood when everyone else surrendered.

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If everyone can't have it, no one should have it—that is the communist argument.

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They are few in number, but they have the right to live in peace, to choose their own way of life and to determine their own allegiance. Their way of life is British. Their allegiance is to the Crown. #FalklandsDay

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❗️MUST WATCH❗️ "Wars are not caused by the building up of weapons. They are caused when an aggressor believes he can achieve his objective at an acceptable price." -Address to the U.S. Congress: House of Representatives (1985) #Ukraine @NATO

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#OnThisDay in 1990, Margaret Thatcher formally tenders her resignation to the Queen. "We're leaving Downing Street for the last time after eleven and a half wonderful years, and we're very happy that we leave the United Kingdom in a very much better state than when we came here"

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The land is Britain's. The people there are British. The people there don't want to be taken over by the Argentinians or anyone else, and their experience there will mean they never want to be taken over ever again. Are you suggesting that someone else can march into the land of…

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Isn't it time we spoke up for our way of life? After all, no Western nation has to build a wall round itself to keep its people in.

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Pennies don't fall from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.

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1 year

It is not enough to agree on words. We must live up to them. Nor should we take refuge in deliberate ambiguity; in finding “a form of words” because that's easier than finding a solution. No lasting solution will be achieved by saying one thing and meaning another. Or by getting…

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I must tell you that what we have got is an attempt to substitute the rule of the mob for the rule of law, and it must not succeed. The rule of law must prevail over the rule of the mob.

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