“Let me give you my vision. A man's right to work as he will …”

“Let me give you my vision. A man's right to work as he will to spend what he earns to own property to have the State as servant and not as master these are the British inheritance. They are the essence of a free economy. And on that freedom all our other freedoms depend.”

— Margaret Thatcher

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Title: Wikiquote: Margaret Thatcher
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Speech to the Conservative Party Conference (10 October 1975)

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Thatcher, Margaret. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Margaret Thatcher. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher

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