Lady Thatcher’s Advice to Conservative Bloggers

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Margaret Thatcher, The Iron Lady – Freedom Fighter and Icon Dies at 87

Margaret Thatcher, R.I.P.

Margaret Thatcher spoke at several Hillsdale College events, both on- and off-campus. Her speeches have been featured three times in Hillsdale’s monthly publication Imprimis, including a speech entitled "The Moral Foundations of Society" in March 1995.

Click Here to Read "The Moral Foundations of Society"
by Margaret Thatcher

A Message from Hillsdale College President Larry P. Arnn:

Lady Thatcher, born Margaret Roberts in 1925, was one of the most important and beneficial statesmen of the twentieth century. When she came to power in 1979, her nation was held in the grip of unions that had command of the largest political party in the state. They used that power to shut down industries and even sections of the country at will to make employment demands.

Rather than resist, the government would collude in crippling strikes. Margaret Thatcher was elected with a promise to stop these practices, and in a series of dramatic confrontations in her first year she was successful. She did not seek, she said, to adjust the power from labor to capital, but rather to return the government to serving the whole people and the public interest.

In 1982, she sent British forces to war against the junta in Argentina, which had invaded the Falkland Islands, a British protectorate. Britain won that war with the help of the United States and its president, her friend, Ronald Reagan. The Falklands are in dispute between Britain and Argentina today, and the current administration in Washington is less friendly to Britain. The people of the Falklands, whenever they are asked, still indicate in overwhelming numbers that they wish to remain as they are.

The only statue of Lady Thatcher in North America stands on the Hillsdale College campus. She visited the campus in 1994 and spoke at college events on several occasions. We are proud to have known her. At our spring convocation on Thursday we will say prayers of thanksgiving for her life and service.

Lady Thatcher with the Hillsdale College Chamber Choir after a performance in February 2001

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