Margaret Thatcher Quotes - Page 7

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• 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.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Nhs, Principles, Adequate

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• I want my money back!

  Margaret Thatcher

  Want

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• I call the Conservative Party now to a crusade. Not only the Conservative Party. I appeal to all those men and women of goodwill who do not want a Marxist future for themselves or their children or their children's children. This is not just a fight about national solvency. It is a fight about the very foundations of the social order. It is a crusade not merely to put a temporary brake on Socialism, but to stop its onward march once and for all.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Children, Block, Party

  Margaret Thatche's Speech to Conservative Party Conference, www.margaretthatcher.org. October 8, 1976.

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• Object to merit and distinction, and you're setting your face against quality, independence, originality, genius against all the richness and variety of life. When you hold back the successful, you penalize those who need help.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Ambition, Successful, Independence

  Margaret Thatcher (1997). “The collected speeches of Margaret Thatcher”, HarperCollins

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• Yet the basic fact remains: every regulation represents a restriction of liberty, every regulation has a cost. That is why, like marriage (in the Prayer Book's words), regulation should not "be enterprised, nor taken in hand, unadvisedly, lightly, or wantonly"

  Margaret Thatcher

  Prayer, Book, Taken

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• You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Travel, Infrastructure, Economist

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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.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Party, Believe, Mean

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• I will not change just to court popularity.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Popularity, Court

  Margaret Thatcher (1989). “The revival of Britain: speeches on home and European affairs, 1975-1988”

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• There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Liberty, Conservative, Economic

  "Labour's wretched silence on child poverty" by Kevin McKenna, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2012.

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• We shall take whatever action is necessary to contain the growth of the money supply. The government, unlike so many of its predecessors, will face up to economic realities.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Money, Reality, Government

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• There is little hope for democracy if the hearts of men and women in democratic societies cannot be touched by a call to something greater than themselves.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Heart, Men, Democracy

  Margaret Thatcher (1989). “The revival of Britain: speeches on home and European affairs, 1975-1988”

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• When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment, it's exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Real, Issues, Hands

  On the Falklands campaign, 1982, in Chris Rose 'The Dirty Man of Europe'

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• My job is to stop Britain from going red.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Jobs, Red, Britain

  Speech to Institute of Public Relations, www.margaretthatcher.org. November 2, 1977.

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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.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Eggs, Layers, Golden

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• First you win the argument, then you win the vote.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Winning, Politics, Firsts

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• You can't lead from the crowd.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Crowds

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• No generation has a free hold on this earth. All we have is a life tenancy-with a full repairing lease.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Generations, Earth, Conservative

  Margaret Thatcher (1989). “The revival of Britain: speeches on home and European affairs, 1975-1988”

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• I shall fight on, I shall fight to win.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Powerful, Fighting, Winning

  "I shall fight on, I fight to win". Margaret Thatcher's remarks to journalists in Downing Street on leadership election second ballot, www.margaretthatcher.org. November 21, 1990.

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• I wasn't lucky. I deserved it.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Powerful, Political, Lucky

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• We weren't getting a fair deal on the budget and I wasn't going to have it. There's a great strand of equity and fairness in the British people - this is our characteristic. There's not a strand of equity and fairness in Europe - they're out to get as much as they can. That's one of those enormous differences. So I tackled it on that basis.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Europe, Differences, People

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• The Russians are bent on world dominance, and they are rapidly acquiring the means to become the most powerful imperial nation the world has seen. The men in the Soviet Politburo do not have to worry about the ebb and flow of public opinion. They put guns before butter, while we put just about everything before guns.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Powerful, Mean, Gun

  Margaret Thatcher (1997). “The collected speeches of Margaret Thatcher”, HarperCollins

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• [On Ronald Reagan:] Poor dear, there's nothing between his ears.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Ears, Poor, Dear

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• Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Military, Oxygen, Hymns

  Speech to American Bar Association in London, 15 July 1985, in The Times 16 July 1985

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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.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Long, Interesting, Political

  In Observer 27 Jan. 1980

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