Posted on 04/08/2013 8:56:43 AM PDT by Candor7
Britain's first and only female prime minister Baroness Thatcher has died at the age of 87 after suffering a stroke.
Lady Thatcher's children Mark and Carol said their mother, who suffered bouts of ill health in recent years, died peacefully on Monday morning.
Downing Street, which joined Buckingham Palace in flying its flags at half mast, said the politician would be given a full ceremonial funeral with honours at St Paul's Cathedral.
Sky sources understand she died at the Ritz in central London where she had been staying since January following a minor operation.
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Great Vids off this page.
Thanks for the link summary.
Ping to videos on thread article page about Maggie Thatcher’s history.
MEMORABLE QUOTES FROM MARGARET THATCHER:
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
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.
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.
There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
Any woman who understands and experiences the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.
Ought we not to ask the media to agree among themselves a voluntary code of conduct, under which they would not say or show anything which could assist the terrorists’ morale or their cause while the hijack lasted.
I owe nothing to Women’s Lib.
No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions; he had money as well.
“If a Tory does not believe that private property is one of the main bulwarks of individual freedom, then he had better become a socialist and have done with it.”
Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people’s money. It’s quite a characteristic of them.
“Pennies don’t fall from heaven, they have to be earned here on earth.
“I came to office with one deliberate intent: to change Britain from a dependent to a self-reliant society — from a give-it-to-me, to a do-it-yourself nation. A get-up-and-go, instead of a sit-back-and-wait-for-it Britain.
“No. No. No.” — House of Commons, Oct. 30, 1990 (On UK joining the Euro)
Britain has lost one of its greatest leaders and the west has lost one of its greatest leaders.
She was instrumental in destroying the “Evil Empire” and was a bulwark of support for western civilization.
She will be missed and I hope she rests in God’s hands in peace.
Thatcher is dead while Hillary still lives... there is no justice.
The Iron Lady and The Shady Fady.
Hillery may not survive Obama.
RIP, Maggie,
and BIG
B U M P
Margaret, you will be seated with God next to Ronald Reagan. RIP!!
We’re kinda really on our own, now.... I am so glad I got my Reagan politics from my Italian grandfather rather than the rest of my... Rat family, may as well say it, who all voted for the King Rat *again*.
Please keep an eye on us, Lady Thatcher, you know we need it
desperately.
R.I.P. Lady Thatcher. Thanks. Condolences to your family, your friends.
love
Thanks for the ping, Candor7. She was the right person at the right time. We desperately need more like her, now. Rest in peace.
And I wonder how much of that still exists in Britain today?
The Liberals made sure through their immigration policies that it wouldn’t exist.
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