Margaret Thatcher — "The spirit of enterprise is the spirit of freedom."
The spirit of enterprise is the spirit of freedom.
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"The state has no source of money other than the money people earn themselves. If the state wishes to spend more it can only do so by borrowing your savings or by taxing you more."
"I am not concerned with the short-term view. I am concerned with the long-term future of this country."
"I don't mind how much my ministers talk, so long as they do what I say."
"If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing."
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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.