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Margaret Thatcher
English
Leader
Born:
Oct 13
,
1925
Died:
Apr 8
,
2013
History
Me
Politics
Will
Woman
You
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Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
Margaret Thatcher
You
People
Power
Tell
Like
Being
Lady
If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.
Margaret Thatcher
You
Man
Woman
Something
Said
Done
Want
Ask
I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
Margaret Thatcher
Politics
I Am
Own
Patient
Extraordinarily
Way
My Own
Am
Provided
End
Get
In The End
I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.
Margaret Thatcher
Political
Argument
Single
Think
Immensely
Wounding
Attack
Particularly
Cheer
Well
Because
Always
Left
Up
Personally
Means
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
Margaret Thatcher
You
Dangerous
Down
Sides
Both
Both Sides
Road
Knocked
Traffic
Very
Get
Middle
Standing
Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
Margaret Thatcher
History
Philosophy
America
Created
Europe
Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.
Margaret Thatcher
You
Yourself
Pride
Important
Difficult
Know
Self-Esteem
Although
Personal
Personal Satisfaction
Satisfaction
Right
If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
Margaret Thatcher
Wisdom
Time
You
Achieve
Nothing
Out
Would
Would-Be
Be Prepared
Compromise
Liked
Any
Anything
Prepared
Set
The spirit of envy can destroy; it can never build.
Margaret Thatcher
Envy
Build
Destroy
Spirit
Never
To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.
Margaret Thatcher
Me
Values
Abandoning
Seems
Something
Objects
No-One
Policies
Principles
Process
Which
Beliefs
Believes
Consensus
I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.
Margaret Thatcher
Politics
Good
Conflict
Good And Evil
Will
Evil
Believe
Triumph
Between
Because
Am
End
In The End
What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
Margaret Thatcher
Success
Work
Hard Work
You
Sense
Think
Enough
Having
Purpose
Knowing
Got
Doing
Mixture
Flair
Certain
Hard
Thing
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
Love
Me
Debate
Job
Argument
Sit
Expect
Just
Anyone
Agree
To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.
Margaret Thatcher
Socialism
Like
Cure
Trying
Disease
British
Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.
Margaret Thatcher
Home
Woman
Problems
Will
Country
Understanding
Running
Understands
Any
Who
Nearer
If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage.
Margaret Thatcher
Me
You
Own
Throat
Come
Want
Cut
Your
There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it.
Margaret Thatcher
Politics
People
Party
Believe
Still
Traitors
Regard
Mean
Them
Who
Consensus
I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.
Margaret Thatcher
Work
Hard Work
You
Will
Recipe
Top
Pretty
Know
Without
Always
Got
Get
Anyone
Should
Hard
Who
Near
Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.
Margaret Thatcher
Government
Family
Money
Will
Wish
Every
Spend
Dictates
Tax
After
Us
Choice
Should
Choose
Let Us
Extend
Right
Chance
A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
Margaret Thatcher
History
World
Dangerous
Would
Would-Be
Weapons
More
Without
Stable
Us
Less
Nuclear
Nuclear Weapons
No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well.
Margaret Thatcher
Good
Money
Remember
Good Intentions
Would
Only
Had
No-One
He
Well
Intentions
Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.
Margaret Thatcher
Nothing
More
Obstinate
Than
Fashionable
Consensus
If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim.
Margaret Thatcher
Me
Saw
Say
Would
Critics
Over
Because
Thames
Walking
Swim
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
History
Try
Depend
Starve
Ways
Must
Find
Democratic
Terrorist
Nations
Oxygen
Which
Publicity
If... many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.
Margaret Thatcher
War
Alone
People
Liberty
Made
Cold
Cold War
Failed
Overcame
Understand
How
Were
Up
Going
Just
Forgotten
Influential
Against
Gains
Capable
Many
Enlarging
There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.
Margaret Thatcher
Women
Men
Men And Women
Society
Individual
Families
Thing
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