Margaret Thatcher Quotes:
A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
Margaret Thatcher
Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.
Margaret Thatcher
Being prime minister is a lonely job… you cannot lead from the crowd.
Margaret Thatcher
Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.
Margaret Thatcher
Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.
Margaret Thatcher
Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
Margaret Thatcher
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.
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
I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.
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 don’t mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.
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
I like Mr. Gorbachev, we can do business together.
Margaret Thatcher
I love argument, I love debate. I don’t expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that’s not their job.
Margaret Thatcher
I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.
Margaret Thatcher
I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.
Margaret Thatcher
If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn’t swim.
Margaret Thatcher
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.
Margaret Thatcher
If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
Margaret Thatcher
If you want to cut your own throat, don’t come to me for a bandage.
Margaret Thatcher
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.
Margaret Thatcher
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
Margaret Thatcher
It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.
Margaret Thatcher
It pays to know the enemy – not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.
Margaret Thatcher
It’s a funny old world.
Margaret Thatcher
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.
Margaret Thatcher
No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions; he had money as well.
Margaret Thatcher
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.
Margaret Thatcher