Her firm belief that deeply held convictions should never be compromised by consensus was her great strength and, at the same time, her greatest weakness.

但凡她坚持的信念，她都不会做出任何妥协，这种坚定是她的长处，同时也是她最大的弱点。

For many, her philosophy was summed up in a magazine interview she gave in 1987.

在很多人看来，撒切尔夫人1987年接受的一个杂志采访很好地总结了她的人生观。

"I think we have gone through a period when too many children and people have been given to understand 'I have a problem, it is the government's job to cope with it!' or 'I have a problem, I will go and get a grant to cope with it!'; 'I am homeless, the government must house me!' and so they are casting their problems on society and who is society?

“我觉得我们经历了这样一个时期，不少人（包括孩子）理所当然地认为：‘我遇到问题了，政府有职责去解决这个问题！’或者‘我遇到问题了，我得获得（政府）资助才能解决’，又或者‘我无家可归，政府必须给我一个住的地方’。这样一来，他们都把自己的问题归咎于社会，那么社会是什么呢？”

"There is no such thing! There are individual men and women and there are families, and no government can do anything except through people and people look to themselves first.

“根本就不存在这样一个东西！社会上存在的就是个体的男人、女人和家庭，政府只有通过人民才能有所作为，人民最先依赖的还应该是他们自己。”

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