Margaret Thatcher Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Margaret Thatcher on Wise Famous Quotes.
When you stop a dictator, there are always risks. But there are greater risks in not stopping a dictator.
Misgovernment ... will often be reflected in oppressive or aggressive policies towards groups within the state or towards the state's neighbours.
Any leader has to have a certain amount of steel in them, so I am not that put out being called the Iron Lady.
I calculate that I was responsible for proposing the elevation to the Lords of some 214 of its present numbers.
I might have preferred iron, but bronze will do. It won't rust. And, this time I hope, the head will stay on.
Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy.
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.
If you are guided by opinion polls, you are not practicing leadership
you are practicing followership.
you are practicing followership.
The patronage state is an arrogant state. It assumes it can spend your money better than you do. Yet it expects you to work for it in the first place.
[When asked how it felt to be a female prime minister:] I don't know: I've never experienced the alternative.
If you just set out to be liked, you will be prepared to compromise on anything at anytime, and would achieve nothing.
Good Conservatives always pay their bills. And on time. Not like the Socialists who run up other people's bills.
If there is one instance in which a foreign policy I pursued met with unambiguous failure, it was my policy on German reunification.
The application of collective guilt, running from one generation to another, is a dangerous doctrine which would leave few modern nations unscathed.
All the general propositions favouring freedom I had .. imbibed at my father's knee or acquired by candle-end reading of Burke and Hayek ...
Business success isn't just a selfish aim. Profits spread beyond those who make them and bring jobs and prosperity.
We're saying to anyone who dares to attack us, Do not do it, you couldn't win, the result would be devastating! I think you're saying the same.
Why do you climb philosophical hills? Because they are worth climbing ... There are no hills to go down unless you start from the top.
Wars are not caused by the buildup of weapons. They are caused when an aggressor believes he can achieve his objectives at an acceptable price.
Being powerful is a lot like being a woman: If you have to tell someone that you are, invariably, you are not.
I can cope with nine of them, so they ought to be able to stand one of me. They could end the tiresomeness and stubbornness by giving me what I want.
Bribing regimes to comply with requirements which they should have acknowledged in the first place is not a process that appeals to me.
You know the critical thing with the Communist countries is Communism, which by definition consists of control by the government.
Those who imagine that a politician would make a better figurehead than a hereditary monarch might perhaps make the acquaintance of more politicians.
The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians.
The United States is contributing massively to the defence of Europe and we should be very grateful.
People are really rather afraid that this country might be rather swamped by people with a different culture.
We are very fortunate to have someone else's weapons stationed on our soil, to fight those targeted on us.
It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.
I couldn't live without work. That's what makes me so sympathetic towards those people who are unemployed. I don't know how they live without working.
It is your tax which pays for public spending. The government have no money of their own. There is only taxpayers' money.
And what a prize we have to fight for: no less than the chance to banish from our land the dark divisive clouds of Marxist socialism.
Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.