Margaret Thatcher — "Discipline. That's the one thing that I've always thought is the most important …"
Discipline. That's the one thing that I've always thought is the most important thing.
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"Freedom under the law is the most precious thing we have."
"I am not a fan of the welfare state. I think it is an expensive way of trying to do things which could be done better by voluntary effort."
"I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near."
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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.