“I think it is a great day for freedom. I watched the scenes on television last night and again this morning because I felt one ought not only hear about them but see them because you see the joy on people's faces and you see what freedom means to them; it makes you realise that you cannot stifle or suppress people's desire for liberty and so I watched with the same joy as everyone else and I hope that they will be a prelude to the Berlin Wall coming down.”

— Margaret Thatcher

Remarks on the Berlin Wall (10 November 1989) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/107819
Third term as Prime Minister

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