There are still people who believe that the state should provide everything. They are wrong. The state provides nothing. It only distributes what others produce.
— Margaret Thatcher Contemporary

British PM, Iron Lady

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Speech to Conservative Party Conference

Date / Period

1979

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Shocking

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https://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/104085

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