Margaret Thatcher Quotes

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Margaret Thatcher Quotes

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Margaret Thatcher

Politician

Grateful

“The National Health Service is safe with us. The principle of adequate healthcare should be provided for all regardless of ability to pay must be the function of any arrangements for financing the NHS. We stand by that.”

Principles Adequate Nhs

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Margaret Thatcher

Politician

Optimistic

“New technology is the true friend of full employment; the indispensable ally of progress; and the surest guarantee of prosperity.”

Technology Progress True Friend

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Confident

“I've got my teeth into him, and I'm not going to let go.”

Letting Go Teeth

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Confident

“Advisers advise, and ministers decide.”

Ministers Advise

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Optimistic

“Whether manufactured by black, white, brown or yellow hands, a widget remains a widget – and it will be bought anywhere if the price and quality are right. The market is a more powerful and more reliable liberating force than government can ever be.”

Hands Government Powerful

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Wise

“There is no such thing as society, there is a living tapestry of men and women and the beauty of that tapestry, and the quality of our lives, will depend upon how much each of us is prepared to take responsibility for ourselves and to turn round and help, by our own efforts, those who are unfortunate. There's no such thing as entitlement unless someone has first met an obligation”

Men Responsibility Effort

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Courageous

“I will not stagger from expedient to expedient.”

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Courageous

“You can't buck the market.”

Bucks

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Courageous

“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.”

Fighting Dark Clouds

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Optimistic

“The Third World is very much like the First World - just poorer: what works for the West will work for the rest as well.”

World Firsts West

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Philosophical

“I am not one who, to quote an American author, believes that democracy and enterprise have finally won the battle of ideas - that we have therefore arrived at the end of history, and there is nothing left to fight for. That would be unutterably complacent, indeed foolish. There will always be threats to freedom, not only from frontal assaults, but more insidiously by erosion from within.”

Believe Fighting Erosion

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Funny

“We introduced the Community Charge. I still call it that. I like the Poles - I never had any intention of taxing them.”

Community Stills Intention

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