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April 8, 2013

"The great achievement of Reagan, Thatcher and the Pope lay in remembering that Communism was an evil thing."

Thatcher ends her long life, the last of the three, at a moment when everyone is out of credit, or rather living on it.

She passes in an uncertain hour, the story of her life and times a pointed reminder of how far we have fallen from those days. Yet if we understand her life aright the principal lesson is that the ordinary is extraordinary. The world is not made by the Great and the Good. Rather it is made by ordinary folk striving to be better.  Therefore the greatest aspiration of a statesman was to represent what we were — and still could be. -- Belmont Club » Margaret Thatcher

Posted by gerardvanderleun at April 8, 2013 9:26 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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And this graphic seems apt (not using it on my site, thought I'd pass it along):
https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/547878_433136790106180_578140120_n.jpg

Posted by: Donald Sensing at April 8, 2013 12:44 PM

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