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Margaret Thatcher [ˈmɑːɡrɪt ˈθatʃə], baronne Thatcher , est une femme d'État britannique.

Fille d'un épicier et d'une couturière, elle est chimiste au Somerville College , puis avocate de profession. Elle fait son entrée au Parlement du Royaume-Uni en 1959 et exerce la fonction de secrétaire d'État à l'Éducation et aux Sciences dans le gouvernement Heath, de 1970 à 1974.

Elle est la première femme à diriger le Parti conservateur, de 1975 à 1990. Elle est également la première femme à exercer les fonctions de Premier ministre du Royaume-Uni, du 4 mai 1979 au 28 novembre 1990. Arrivée au pouvoir dans un pays en situation d'instabilité, Margaret Thatcher en redresse l'économie en mettant en place une série de réformes radicales. Remportant trois élections générales consécutives, elle effectue le plus long mandat ininterrompu de Premier ministre au Royaume-Uni depuis Robert Jenkinson , et est considérée comme étant la plus renommée des dirigeants politiques britanniques depuis Winston Churchill.

Attachée à ses convictions chrétiennes méthodistes, conservatrices et libérales, invoquant la souveraineté britannique, la protection de l'intérêt de ses administrés et les principes de droit, elle mène une politique étrangère marquée par l'opposition à l'URSS, la promotion de l'atlantisme, la guerre des Malouines, en 1982, et la promotion d'une Europe libre-échangiste au sein de la Communauté économique européenne. Sa politique économique, fortement influencée par les idées issues du libéralisme économique, se distingue par d'importantes privatisations, la baisse des impôts directs, la maîtrise de l'inflation et du déficit public, ainsi que par l'affaiblissement des syndicats. Elle s'accompagne d'une hausse puis d'une baisse du chômage, d'une augmentation significative du produit intérieur brut, d'un accroissement des inégalités économiques, d'une augmentation des impôts indirects et prélèvements obligatoires. L'ensemble de ses politiques, et notamment sa politique économique libérale, est connu sous le nom de « thatchérisme ».

Margaret Thatcher est l'une des figures politiques britanniques à la fois les plus admirées et les plus détestées. Le surnom de « Dame de fer », que le journal L'Étoile rouge, organe de l'armée soviétique, lui décerne en 1976 dans le but de stigmatiser son anticommunisme, symbolise sa fermeté face aux grévistes de la faim de l'IRA provisoire en 1981 ou aux mineurs grévistes en 1984-1985 et se répandra dans le monde entier. Elle reste associée à la « révolution conservatrice » des années 1980. En effet, l'influence de son passage au gouvernement du Royaume-Uni est souvent qualifiée de « révolution » sur les plans politique, idéologique, et économique.

Au-delà des conservateurs, elle a influencé une partie des travaillistes, notamment Tony Blair. Wikipedia  

✵ 13. octobre 1925 – 8. avril 2013   •   Autres noms Margaret Thatcherová, Margaret Hilda Thatcher
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Margaret Thatcher citations célèbres

“Notre politique n'est pas fondée sur la jalousie ou sur la haine, mais sur la liberté individuelle de l'homme ou de la femme. Nous ne voulons pas interdire le succès et la réussite, nous voulons encourager le dynamisme et l'initiative. En 1940, ce n'est pas l'appel à la nationalisation qui a poussé notre pays à combattre le totalitarisme, c'est l'appel de la liberté.”

Margaret Thatcher

Discours prononcé initialement en 1950 à Dartford
Les chemins du pouvoir, Mémoires II, 1995

“La grande réforme politique du siècle dernier a consisté à accorder le droit de vote à un nombre toujours accru de citoyens. Désormais la grande réforme politique de ce siècle voulue par les Tories consiste à permettre l'accès à la propriété à un nombre toujours accru de ces mêmes citoyens.”

Margaret Thatcher

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Discours de Bornemouth, 10 octobre 1986

“Je n'ai jamais oublié que l'objectif inavoué du socialisme – municipal ou national – était d'accroître la dépendance. La pauvreté n'était pas seulement le sol nourricier du socialisme : elle en était l'effet délibérément recherché.”

Margaret Thatcher

10 Downing Street, Mémoires, 1993

“La dame n'aime pas renoncer”

Margaret Thatcher

The lady is not for turning
Propos tenus dans un discours devant le Conseil central de son parti, en octobre 1980
10 Downing Street, Mémoires, 1993

“Le socialisme a l'État pour credo. Il considère les êtres humains ordinaires comme le matériau brut de ses projets de changements sociaux.”

Margaret Thatcher

Propos tenus dans un discours devant le Conseil central de son parti, en mars 1990
10 Downing Street, Mémoires, 1993

“Le capitalisme populaire n'est rien d'autre qu'une croisade destinée à permettre au plus grand nombre de participer de plein droit à la vie économique de la nation.”

Margaret Thatcher

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Discours de Bornemouth, 10 octobre 1986

Margaret Thatcher: Citations en anglais

“I place a profound belief—indeed a fervent faith—in the virtues of self reliance and personal independence. On these is founded the whole case for the free society, for the assertion that human progress is best achieved by offering the freest possible scope for the development of individual talents, qualified only by a respect for the qualities and the freedom of others...For many years there has been a subtle erosion of the essential virtues of the free society. Self-reliance has been sneered at as if it were an absurd suburban pretention. Thrift has been denigrated as if it were greed. The desire of parents to choose and to struggle for what they themselves regarded as the best possible education for their children has been scorned.”

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Speech to Conservative Central Council (15 March 1975) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/102655
Leader of the Opposition

“I was determined to accept the invitation I had earlier received from General Jaruzelski to go to Poland. I always felt the greatest affection and admiration for this nation of indomitable patriots, whose traditions and distinctive identity the Prussians, Austrians and Russians (in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries) and the Nazis and communists (in the twentieth century) had sought vainly to extinguish. I could not forget the Polish airmen who had fought with the RAF against Nazism, and how a war begun over the freedom of Poland had ended leaving them trapped under tyranny.”

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Margaret Thatcher livre The Downing Street Years

Source: The Downing Street Years (1993), p. 777

“The press was full of outraged criticism of the community charge from Conservative supporters. What hurt me was that the very people who had always looked to me for protection from exploitation by the socialist state were those who were suffering most. These were the people who were just above the level at which community charge benefit stopped but who were by no means well off and who had scrimped and saved to buy their homes.”

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Margaret Thatcher livre The Downing Street Years

Source: The Downing Street Years (1993), p. 658

“I never confused the leader page of the Guardian with vox populi.”

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Margaret Thatcher livre The Downing Street Years

Source: The Downing Street Years (1993), p. 561

“I was lectured on my political morality, on my preferring British jobs to black lives, on my lack of concern for human rights. One after the other, their accusations became more vitriolic and personal until I could stand it no longer. To their palpable alarm I began to tell my African critics a few home truths. I noted that they were busily trading with South Africa at the same time as they were attacking me for refusing to apply sanctions. I wondered when they intended to show similar concern about abuses in the Soviet Union, with which of course they often had not just trade but close political links. I wondered when I was going to hear them attack terrorism. I reminded them of their own less than impressive record on human rights. And when the representative from Uganda took me to task for racial discrimination, I turned on him and reminded him of the Asians which Uganda had thrown out on racial grounds, many of whom had come to settle in my constituency in North London, where they were model citizens and doing very well.”

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Margaret Thatcher livre The Downing Street Years

On the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting at Nassau in October 1985, where Thatcher opposed sanctions on South Africa
Source: The Downing Street Years (1993), p. 517

“I have enormous admiration for the Jewish people, inside or outside Israel. There have always been Jewish members of my staff and indeed my Cabinet. In fact I just wanted a Cabinet of clever, energetic people – and frequently that turned out to be the same thing. My old constituency of Finchley has a large Jewish population. In the thirty-three years I represented it I never had a Jew come in poverty and desperation to one of my constituency surgeries. They had always been looked after by their own community.”

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Margaret Thatcher livre The Downing Street Years

Source: The Downing Street Years (1993), p. 509

“Unlike some of my colleagues, I never ceased to believe that, other things being equal, the level of unemployment was related to the extent of trade union power. The unions had priced many of their members out of jobs by demanding excessive wages for insufficient output, so making British goods uncompetitive.”

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Margaret Thatcher livre The Downing Street Years

Source: The Downing Street Years (1993), p. 272

“Socialism is a creed of the state. It regards ordinary human beings as the raw material for its schemes of social change. But we put our faith in people—in the millions of people who spend what they earn—not what other people earn. Who make sacrifices for their young family or their elderly parents. Who help their neighbours and take care of their neighbourhoods. The sort of people I grew up with. These are the people whom I became Leader of this Party to defend.”

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Speech to the Conservative Central Council in Cheltenham (31 March 1990) https://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/108051
Third term as Prime Minister

“The Delors report is aimed at a federal Europe, a common currency and a common economic policy, which would take many economic policies, including fiscal policy, out of the hands of the House, and that is completely unacceptable. It would also require a treaty amendment, which we do not believe would ever be passed by the House because of the lack of sovereignty that it would imply.”

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Prime Ministers' Questions (27 April 1989) https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1989/apr/27/engagements#S6CV0151P0_19890427_HOC_126
Third term as Prime Minister

“In my work, you get used to criticisms. Of course you do, because there are a lot of people trying to get you down, but I always cheer up immensely if one is particularly wounding because I think well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left. That is why my father always taught me: never worry about anyone who attacks you personally; it means their arguments carry no weight and they know it.”

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From an interview for Italian television (RAI) (10 March 1986) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/106223
Second term as Prime Minister

“I believe in the British lion and I believe that the British character is lion-hearted, and I believe that it has not been lion-hearted in some of the post-War period, and I want it to get back to being lion hearted.”

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Margaret Thatcher

Second term as Prime Minister
Source: Radio Interview for BBC Radio 3 (17 December 1985) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/105934

“And never forget that the Marxist societies call themselves, and indeed are, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Some of the aims of socialism, are the aims of a Marxist society, and they result in the subjugation of the rights of people to political theory. Because the Marxist system has become morally and materially bankrupt, citizens who live beneath its yoke see hope in our ideals. Ideals which limit the power of the State so that the varied talents and abilities of each person may flourish giving dignity and meaning to life. Ideals which respect the family, its loyalties, affections and responsibilities. Ideals where the rule of law is just and impartially administered. Those who live under the heel of Marxist tyranny look with envy at the very things we take for granted. They know that politics is about more than economics in a free society. So do we—we belong to the oldest and most enduring democratic Party in the world.”

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Speech to Conservative Women’s Conference (20 May 1981) https://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/104653
First term as Prime Minister

“I am the rebel head of an establishment government.”

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Remark to a reception at 10 Downing Street (24 June 1980), quoted in Norman St John-Stevas, The Two Cities (London: Faber and Faber, 1984), p. 83
First term as Prime Minister

“To me there is only one way to judge a person, whatever his background, whatever his colour, whatever his religion, and that is what that person is, and not by his race or creed. That is what I believe in, that is what I will tell everyone and that is what I try to achieve everything.”

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Margaret Thatcher

Speech to the Young Conservative Conference in Eastbourne (13 February 1977), quoted in The Times (14 February 1977), p. 3
Leader of the Opposition

“It's time to get up! It's time go to work! It's time to put the great, back into Great Britain!”

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Source: movie The Iron Lady

“If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.”

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“Human rights did not begin with the French Revolution instead, they really stem from a mixture of Judaism and Christianity”

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Said in 1989 according to Anders Breivik & Europe's blind right eye https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/anders-breivik-europes-blind-right-eye/article2290619.ece by Praveen Swami published on July 25, 2011 and updated: AUGUST 16, 2016
1980s

“There is no way in which one can buck the market.”

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Prime Ministers' Questions (10 March 1988) https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1988/mar/10/engagements#S6CV0129P0_19880310_HOC_156
Third term as Prime Minister

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