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I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.
Margaret Thatcher
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To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
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I'm extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.
Margaret Thatcher
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There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.
Margaret Thatcher
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If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim.
Margaret Thatcher
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I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.
Margaret Thatcher
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No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn't want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent.
Margaret Thatcher
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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
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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
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There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.
Margaret Thatcher
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No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well.
Margaret Thatcher
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A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
Margaret Thatcher in
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It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.
Margaret Thatcher
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Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd.
Margaret Thatcher
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