Socialists cry 'Power to the people', and raise the clenched fist as they say it. We all know what they mean - a new tyranny. But we say 'Power to the people' and we mean the power to choose, the power to create, the power to own, the power to prosper. These are the true rights of man.
— Margaret Thatcher Contemporary

British PM, Iron Lady

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Speech to Conservative Party Conference

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1976

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Shocking

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https://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/103233

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