Margaret Thatcher Quotes

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Margaret Thatcher Quotes

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Margaret Thatcher

Politician

Courageous

“Isn't a policy of conventional weapons, with the terrible bombs raining down, with the missiles, with the aircraft, with the submarines, with the torpedoes, with the tanks, with chemical weapons - isn't that based on the possibility of threat?”

War Rain Tanks

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Margaret Thatcher

Politician

Love

“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.”

Believe Ideas Battle

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Funny

“... when a big man has a big idea I never like to stand in his way.”

Men Way Ideas

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Angry

“We have become a grandmother.”

Grandmother Grandma

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Angry

“I never hugged him, I bombed him.”

Iron Lady

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Hopeful

“I hope we shall see more ande more women combining marriage and a career. Prejudice against this dual role is not confined to men. I regret to say, it comes from our own sex.”

Men Sex Regret

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Courageous

“I don't want to fight any wars; if you can get them off before we get there, you do it, but off they go.”

Want War Fighting

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Philosophical

“We believe in a free Europe, not a standardised Europe. Diminish that variety within the member states, and you impoverish the whole Community. We insist that the institutions of the European Community are managed so that they increase the liberty of the individual throughout the continent. These institutions must not be permitted to dwindle into bureaucracy. Whenever they fail to enlarge freedom the institutions should be criticised and the balance restored.”

Believe Community Europe

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Hopeful

“I'll stay until I'm tired of it. So long as Britain needs me, I shall never be tired of it.”

Long Needs Tired

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Grateful

“I couldn't live without work. That's what makes me so sympathetic towards those people who are unemployed. I don't know how they live without working.”

People Unemployment Unemployed

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Funny

“It seems like cloud cuckoo land. If anyone is suggesting that I would go to Parliament and suggest the abolition of the Pound Sterling - no! We have made it quite clear that we will not have a single currency imposed upon us.”

Land Clouds Cuckoos

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Optimistic

“One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you - suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, 'Well, I'll have a go, too.'”

Life Motivational Success

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