Margaret Thatcher — "Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you are…"
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
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"I have been asked by a reporter whether I am going to be Prime Minister this year. My answer is no. I have no such intention."
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"There are still people who believe that the state should provide everything. They are wrong. The state provides nothing. It only distributes what others produce."
"The spirit of enterprise is the spirit of freedom."
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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.
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