Margaret Thatcher Quotes And Sayings

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“Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It’s not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it’s a day you’ve had everything to do and you’ve done it.”
– Margaret Thatcher

“Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It’s not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it’s a day you’ve had everything to do and you’ve done 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 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

“No-one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions; he had money as well.”
– Margaret Thatcher

“Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.”
– Margaret Thatcher

“Of course it’s the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.”
– Margaret Thatcher

“One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.”
– Margaret Thatcher

“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.”
– Margaret Thatcher

“Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.”
– Margaret Thatcher

“People from my sort of background needed grammar schools to compete with children from privileged homes like Shirley Williams and Anthony Wedgwood Benn.”
– Margaret Thatcher

“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.”
– Margaret Thatcher

“Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan”
– Margaret Thatcher

“Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.”
– Margaret Thatcher

“Power is like being a lady… if you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.”
– Margaret Thatcher

“President Numeiri of Sudan is said to have remarked of Gadaffi that he was ‘a man with a split personality – both of them evil’.”
– Margaret Thatcher

“Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people’s money. It’s quite a characteristic of them.”
– Margaret Thatcher

“Socialists are happy until they run out of other people’s money.”
– Margaret Thatcher

“Socialists cry “Power to the people”, and raise the clenched fist as they say it. We all know what they really mean—power over people, power to the State.”
– Margaret Thatcher

“Socialists have always spent much of their time seeking new titles for their beliefs, because the old versions so quickly become outdated and discredited.”
– Margaret Thatcher

“Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.”
– Margaret Thatcher

“The accumulation of wealth is a process which is of itself morally neutral. True, as Christianity teaches, riches bring temptations. But then so does poverty.”
– Margaret Thatcher

“The application of collective guilt, running from one generation to another, is a dangerous doctrine which would leave few modern nations unscathed.”
– Margaret Thatcher

“The battle for women‘s rights has been largely won.”
– Margaret Thatcher

“The European single currency is bound to fail, economically, politically and indeed socially, though the timing, occasion and full consequences are all necessarily still unclear.”
– Margaret Thatcher

“The Iraqis had paid a terrible price for Saddam’s folly (in the Gulf War). But looking at the devastation they left behind (in Kuwait), my sympathy was limited.”
– Margaret Thatcher

“The larger the slice taken by government, the smaller the cake available for everyone.”
– Margaret Thatcher

“The Nuremburg trials were attacked at the time as ‘victor’s justice’. And this is precisely what they were – and were intended to be.”
– Margaret Thatcher

“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.”
– Margaret Thatcher

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