Margaret Thatcher — "The British character has been formed by a long history of self-reliance and ind…"
The British character has been formed by a long history of self-reliance and independence.
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"I am not a person who is afraid of confrontation."
"It is not the business of government to nationalize industries. It is the business of government to keep industries competitive."
"We must not be afraid to be ourselves."
"I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph."
"I am not a consensus politician. I am a conviction politician."
About Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013)
British Prime Minister (1979-1990) whose free-market reforms and confrontation with trade unions defined the late-20th-century right. Closely associated with Ronald Reagan (her closest international ally). For an intellectual contrast, see Tony Benn, Labour cabinet minister and democratic-socialist figurehead — Benn was the loudest parliamentary opposition to Thatcherism throughout the 1980s. His diaries and Thatcher's autobiography are the two opposing histories of the period — Britain's class politics is structured around which view was right.