MEMORABLE QUOTES FROM MARGARET THATCHER:
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
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.
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.
There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
Any woman who understands and experiences the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.
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.
I owe nothing to Women’s Lib.
No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions; he had money as well.
“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.”
Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people’s money. It’s quite a characteristic of them.
“Pennies don’t fall from heaven, they have to be earned here on earth.
“I came to office with one deliberate intent: to change Britain from a dependent to a self-reliant society — from a give-it-to-me, to a do-it-yourself nation. A get-up-and-go, instead of a sit-back-and-wait-for-it Britain.
“No. No. No.” — House of Commons, Oct. 30, 1990
“Economics are the method; the object is to change the heart and soul.” Sunday Times, May 1, 1981
“The Russians are bent on world dominance, and they are rapidly acquiring the means to become the most powerful imperial nation the world has seen. The men in the Soviet politburo don’t have to worry about the ebb and flow of public opinion. They put guns before butter, while we put just about everything before guns. They know that they are a super power in only one sense—the military sense. They are a failure in human and economic terms.” Speech, Jan. 19, 1976 (The Russians would respond by calling her the “Iron Lady.”)
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