Margaret Thatcher Quotes And Sayings

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“The Third World is very much like the First World – just poorer: what works for the West will work for the rest as well.”
– Margaret Thatcher

“The West as a whole in the early 1990s become obsessed with a ‘peace dividend’ that would be spent over and over again on any number of soft-hearted and sometimes soft-headed causes. Politicians forget that the only real peace dividend is peace.”
– Margaret Thatcher

“There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors… I mean it.”
– Margaret Thatcher

“There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.”
– Margaret Thatcher

“There is much to be said for trying to improve some disadvantaged people’s lot. There is nothing to be said for trying to create heaven on earth.”
– Margaret Thatcher

“There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.”
– Margaret Thatcher

“This lady is not for turning.”
– Margaret Thatcher

“To be free is better than to be unfree – always. Any politician who suggests the opposite should be treated as suspect.”
– Margaret Thatcher

“To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.”
– Margaret Thatcher

“To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.”
– Margaret Thatcher

“To the extent that the West is to blame at all for the ills of the Third World it is to the extent that the West created Marx and his successors, among whom must be numbered many of those who advised the Third World leaders in post-war years.”
– Margaret Thatcher

“To wear your heart on your sleeve isn’t a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.”
– Margaret Thatcher

“We are not asking for a penny piece of community money for Britain. What we are asking is for a very large amount of our own money back, over and above what we contribute to the community, which is covered by our receipts from the community.”
– Margaret Thatcher

“We were told our campaign wasn’t sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment.”
– Margaret Thatcher

“What Britain needs is an iron lady.”
– Margaret Thatcher

“What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.”
– Margaret Thatcher

“When all the objectives of government include the achievement of equality – other than equality before the law – that government poses a threat to liberty.”
– Margaret Thatcher

“When I’m out of politics I’m going to run a business, it’ll be called rent-a-spine”
– Margaret Thatcher

“Where there is discord, may we bring harmony. Where there is error, may we bring truth. Where there is doubt, may we bring faith. And where there is despair, may we bring hope.”
– Margaret Thatcher

“Whether at home or abroad, the task of statesman is to work with human nature warts and all, and to draw on instincts and even prejudices that can be turned to good purpose. It is never to try to recreate Mankind in a new image.”
– Margaret Thatcher

“Whether it is in the United States or in mainland Europe, written constitutions have one great weakness. That is that they contain the potential to have judges take decisions which should properly be made by Democratically elected politicians.”
– Margaret Thatcher

“Whether manufactured by black, white, brown or yellow hands, a widget remains a widget – and it will be bought anywhere if the price and quality are right. The market is a more powerful and more reliable liberating force than government can ever be.”
– Margaret Thatcher

“You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.”
– Margaret Thatcher

“You don’t tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.”
– Margaret Thatcher

“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.”
– Margaret Thatcher

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