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"I like Mr Gorbachev, we can do business together."	Margaret Thatcher
"We didn't have to do the minuets of diplomacy. We got down to business."	Margaret Thatcher
"I have made it quite clear that a unified Ireland was one solution that is out. A second solution was a confederation of two states. That is out. A third solution was joint authority. That is out-that is a derogation of sovereignty."	Margaret Thatcher
"I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left."	Margaret Thatcher
"If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you."	Margaret Thatcher
"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."	Margaret Thatcher
"If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage."	Margaret Thatcher
"What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose."	Margaret Thatcher
"To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best."	Margaret Thatcher
"A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us."	Margaret Thatcher
"What Britain needs is an iron lady."	Margaret Thatcher
"Unless we change our ways and our direction, our greatness as a nation will soon be a footnote in the history books, a distant memory of an offshore island, lost in the mists of time like Camelot, remembered kindly for its noble past."	Margaret Thatcher
"Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story."	Margaret Thatcher
"We were told our campaign wasn't sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment."	Margaret Thatcher
"The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government."	Henry Ward Beecher
"The chief duty of governments, in so far as they are coercive, is to restrain those who would interfere with the inalienable rights of the individual, among which are the right to life, the right to liberty, the right to the pursuit of happiness and the right to worship God according to the dictates of one's conscience."	William Jennings Bryan
"Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through."	Jonathan Swift
"For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery."	Jonathan Swift
"This administration is totally colorblind."	Ronald Reagan
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