Margaret Thatcher quotes - page 2

If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing. (Margaret Thatcher)

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.

Margaret Thatcher

We have become a grandmother.

Margaret Thatcher

I don't think there will be a woman Prime Minister in my lifetime.

Margaret Thatcher

I can't bear Britain in decline. I just can't.

Margaret Thatcher

To those waiting with bated breath for that favourite media catchphrase, the U-turn, I have only one thing to say: You turn if you want to. The lady's not for turning!

Margaret Thatcher

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

Margaret Thatcher

To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.

Margaret Thatcher

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

Margaret Thatcher

I started life with two great advantages: no money, and good parents.

Margaret Thatcher

Never believe that technology alone will allow America to prevail as a superpower. (Margaret Thatcher)

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

Constitutions have to be written on hearts, not just paper.

Margaret Thatcher

The trouble with you John, is that your spine does not reach your brain.

Margaret Thatcher

In my lifetime all our problems have come from mainland Europe and all the solutions have come from the English-speaking nations across the world.

Margaret Thatcher

This lady is not for turning.

Margaret Thatcher

Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people's money. It's quite a characteristic of them.

Margaret Thatcher

I wasn't lucky. I deserved it.

Margaret Thatcher

I'll stay until I'm tired of it. So long as Britain needs me, I shall never be tired of it.

Margaret Thatcher

I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

Margaret Thatcher

Where there is discord, may we bring harmony. Where there is error, may we bring truth. Where there is doubt, may we bring faith. And where there is despair, may we bring hope. (Margaret Thatcher)

Socialists don't like ordinary people choosing, for they might not choose Socialism.

Margaret Thatcher

Human rights did not begin with the French Revolution... [they] really stem from a mixture of Judaism and Christianity... [we English] had 1688, our quiet revolution, where Parliament exerted its will over the King... it was not the sort of Revolution that France's was...'Liberty, equality, fraternity' – they forgot obligations and duties I think. And then of course the fraternity went missing for a long time.

Margaret Thatcher

Instead of a government with steel in its backbone, we've got one with Steel in its pocket.

Margaret Thatcher

But if Saddam had been in a position credibly to threaten America or any of its allies – or the coalition's forces – with attack by missiles with nuclear warheads, would we have gone to the Gulf at all?

Margaret Thatcher

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