Margaret Thatcher Quotes And Sayings

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“I owe nothing to Women‘s Lib.”
– 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 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

“If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn’t swim.”
– Margaret Thatcher

“If you just set out to be liked, you will be prepared to compromise on anything at anytime, and would achieve nothing.”
– Margaret Thatcher

“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

“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 something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.”
– Margaret Thatcher

“If you want to cut your own throat, don’t come to me for a bandage.”
– 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 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

“I’m back… and you knew I was coming. On my way here I passed a cinema with the sign ‘The Mummy Returns’.”
– Margaret Thatcher

“I’m extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.”
– Margaret Thatcher

“In a system of free trade and free markets poor countries – and poor people – are not poor because others are rich. Indeed, if others became less rich the poor would in all probability become still poorer.”
– Margaret Thatcher

“In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.”
– Margaret Thatcher

“Israel must never be expected to jeopardize her security: if she was ever foolish enough to do so, and then suffered for it, the backlash against both honest brokers and Palestinians would be immense – ‘land for peace‘ must also bring peace.”
– Margaret Thatcher

“It is always important in matters of high politics to know what you do not know. Those who think that they know, but are mistaken, and act upon their mistakes, are the most dangerous people to have in charge.”
– Margaret Thatcher

“It is in a country’s interests to keep faith with its allies. States in this sense are like people. If you have a reputation for exacting favors and not returning them, the favours dry up.”
– Margaret Thatcher

“It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.”
– Margaret Thatcher

“It is one of the great weaknesses of reasonable men and women that they imagine that projects which fly in the face of commonsense are not serious or being seriously undertaken.”
– 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 used to be about trying to do something. Now it’s about trying to be someone.”
– Margaret Thatcher

“It was a lovely morning. We have not had many lovely days. And the sun was just coming through the stained glass windows and falling on some flowers right across the church and it just occurred to me that this was the day I was meant not to see.”
– Margaret Thatcher

“It’s a funny old world.”
– Margaret Thatcher

“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’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

“Just rejoice at that news and congratulate our forces and the marines. Rejoice.”
– Margaret Thatcher

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