"Citizenship should be based on those who..." - Quote by Margaret Thatcher
Citizenship should be based on those who have a close and real relationship with this country and its inhabitants.
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“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 country, and on that freedom all of our other freedoms depend.”
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