Words matter. These are the best Margaret Thatcher Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn’t swim.
If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.
We Conservatives hate unemployment.
I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.
It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.
Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.
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.
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.
No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary – not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn’t want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent.
There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.
I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.
To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.
Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
Ought we not to ask the media to agree among themselves a voluntary code of conduct, under which they would not say or show anything which could assist the terrorists’ morale or their cause while the hijack lasted.
A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
We were told our campaign wasn’t sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment.
I’ve got a woman’s ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.
Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.
People think that at the top there isn’t much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.
You don’t tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.
What Britain needs is an iron lady.
Being prime minister is a lonely job… you cannot lead from the crowd.
I like Mr. Gorbachev, we can do business together.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
This lady is not for turning.
I love argument, I love debate. I don’t expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that’s not their job.
I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
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.
Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
I owe nothing to Women’s Lib.
If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.
There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors… I mean it.
It pays to know the enemy – not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.
Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.
If… many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.
I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.
No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions; he had money as well.
Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.
