Margaret Thatcher Quotes

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Margaret Thatcher Quotes

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Margaret Thatcher

Politician

Angry

“It took us a long time to get rid of the effects of the French Revolution 200 years ago. We don't want another one.”

Years Want Long

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Margaret Thatcher

Politician

Wise

“One of my favourite quotations is: 'That which thy father bequeathed thee, earn it anew, if thou wouldst possess it.'”

Father Thee Favourite

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Optimistic

“Our aim is to make tax collecting a declining industry.”

Taxes Taxation Collecting

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Confident

“I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.”

Men Leadership

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Angry

“I have never knowingly made a non-controversial speech in my life.”

Made Speech

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Angry

“We have made too much of one or two people, and we think that they can win or lose elections for us. Don't be depressed if one particular person transgresses. It doesn't lose an election unless the Party loses faith in itself.”

Thinking Winning Party

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Confident

“It must be a conviction Government. As Prime Minister I could not waste time having internal arguments.”

Government Waste Wasting Time

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Angry

“We must not fall into the trap of projecting our own morality onto the Soviet leaders. They do not share our aspirations, they are not constrained by our ethics, they always consider themselves exempt from the rules that bind other states.”

Fall Leader Ethics

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Angry

“I do not understand the unilateralists. If they hated nuclear weapons as much as I do they would want them down in the world as a whole. I am the true disarmer, I keep peace and freedom and justice with it.”

World Justice Nuclear

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Spiritual

“A world without nuclear weapons may be a dream but you cannot base a sure defence on dreams. Without far greater trust and confidence between East and West than exists at present, a world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.”

World Dream Nuclear

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Confident

“Ladies and gentlemen, I stand before you tonight in my … chiffon evening gown, my face softly made up, my fair hair gently waved, the Iron Lady of the Western world. Me? A Cold War warrior? … Well, yes — if that is how they wish to interpret my defense of values of freedoms fundamental to our way of life.”

War Hair Iron

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Philosophical

“The role of Ronald Reagan had been deliberately diminished; the role of the Europeans, who, with the exception of Helmet Kohl, were often keen to undermine America when it mattered, had been sanitized; and the role of Mr. Gorbachev, who had failed spectacularly in his declared objective of saving communism and the Soviet Union, had been absurdly misunderstood.”

America Unions Misunderstood

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