“If a Tory does not believe that private property is one of t…”

“If a Tory does not believe that private property is one of the main bulwarks of individual freedom, then he had better become a socialist and have done with it.”

— Margaret Thatcher

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Title: Wikiquote: Margaret Thatcher
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Article for Daily Telegraph ("My Kind of Tory Party") (30 January 1975)

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

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