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Margaret Hilda Thatcher was born on this day (October 13) in 1925 and today would have been her 94th birthday. Unfortunately, she died on April 8, 2013, at the age of 87. To honor Baroness Thatcher and her rich political legacy serving as the prime minister of the UK from 1979 to 1990 on her 94th birthday, here are some videos, quotations, and related articles featuring the “Iron Lady.
1. The video above features Margaret Thatcher’s address to the Conservative Party conference in 1983 when she said:
Let us never forget this fundamental truth. The state has no source of money other than the money people earn themselves. If the state wishes to spend more, it can do so only by borrowing your savings or by taxing you more. There is no such thing as public money, there is only taxpayers’ money.
It is a very fundamental truth that is frequently forgotten. Any time you see or hear the terms “public funding,” “public funds,” “government funding,” or “government funds” be sure to substitute “taxpayer funding” and “taxpayer funds.”
2. Here are the “Top Five Reasons Margaret Thatcher is Still an Inspiration to Women Today,” via the Independent Women’s Forum on Margaret Thatcher’s birthday in 2017.
3. The video above is Margaret Thatcher’s last House of Commons Speech on November 22, 1990, which is known as “Thatcher’s Last Stand Against Socialism.”
4. Here are some great Margaret Thatcher quotes, which are just as relevant and timely for America today, if not more so, than they were for the UK a quarter-century ago. Listen up Karla Marx (AOC)!
1. The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.
2. Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas?
3. I think we’ve been through a period where too many people have been given to understand that if they have a problem, it’s the government’s job to cope with it. ‘I have a problem, I’ll get a grant.’ ‘I’m homeless, the government must house me.’ They’re casting their problem on society. And, you know, there is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first. It’s our duty to look after ourselves and then, also to look after our neighbor. People have got the entitlements too much in mind, without the obligations. There’s no such thing as entitlement, unless someone has first met an obligation.
4. No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions; he had money as well.
Today would have been Margaret Thatcher’s 94th birthday, she was born on this day in 1925. Here are some videos quotes and to celebrate the “Iron Lady’s” birthday.
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