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Margaret Thatcher on Socialism: 20 of Her Best Quotes
« on: February 11, 2020, 05:30:23 pm »
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Margaret Thatcher on Socialism: 20 of Her Best Quotes
By FEE
A woman of convictions, she thought the unprincipled in government deserved to take a fall because they were too afraid to take a stand
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1. “It is good to recall how our freedom has been gained in this country—not by great abstract campaigns but through the objections of ordinary men and women to having their money taken from them by the State. In the early days, people banded together and said to the then Government, ‘You shall not take our money before you have redressed our grievances.’ It was their money, their wealth, which was the source of their independence against the Government.”

2. “The philosophical reason for which we are against nationalization and for private enterprise is because we believe that economic progress comes from the inventiveness, ability, determination and the pioneering spirit of extraordinary men and women. If they cannot exercise that spirit here, they will go away to another free enterprise country which will then make more economic progress than we do. We ought, in fact, to be encouraging small firms and small companies, because the extent to which innovation comes through these companies is tremendous.”

3. “I was attacked for fighting a rearguard action in defense of ‘middle-class interests.’…Well, if ‘middle class values’ include the encouragement of variety and individual choice, the provision of fair incentives and rewards for skill and hard work, the maintenance of effective barriers against the excessive power of the State and a belief in the wide distribution of individual private property, then they are certainly what I am trying to defend. This is not a fight for ‘privilege’; it is a fight for freedom—freedom for every citizen.”

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Re: Margaret Thatcher on Socialism: 20 of Her Best Quotes
« Reply #1 on: February 11, 2020, 11:44:02 pm »
If only she had had the foresight or the gumption to push through some kind of "free speech law" in the UK while she was in office.

Too late now. Will never happen.