That is what capitalism is: a system that brings wealth to the many, not just the few. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Socialists don't like ordinary people choosing, for they might not choose Socialism. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Socialism lays an bad egg by killing the capitalism that lays the golden eggs — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
To be free is better than to be unfree – always. Any politician who suggests the opposite should be treated as suspect. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
We need to create a mood where it is everywhere thought morally right for as many people as possible to acquire capital. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
...Conservatives have excellent credentials to speak about human rights. By our efforts, and with precious little help from self-styled liberals, we were… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Remember the 'Parable of the Talents' in the New Testament? Christ exhorts us to be the best we can be by developing… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
No theory of government was ever given a fairer test or a more prolonged experiment in a democratic country than democratic socialism… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Free enterprise has enabled the creative and the acquisitive urges of man to be given expression in a way which benefits all… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The real case against socialism is not its economic inefficiency, though on all sides there is evidence of that. Much more fundamental… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I want a capital-earning democracy. Every man and woman a capitalist. Housing is the start. If you're a man or woman of… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I am much nearer to creating one nation than Labour will ever be. Socialism is two nations. The privileged rulers, and everyone… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Socialism's results have ranged between the merely shabby and the truly catastrophic - poverty, strife, oppression and, on the killing fields of… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Some Socialists seem to believe that people should be numbers in a State computer. We believe they should be individuals. We are… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
My belief in free competitive economic enterprise does not rest solely or even mainly on arguments of economic efficiency, though, heaven knows,… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Adam Smith's 'invisible hand' is not above sudden, disturbing, movements. Since its inception, capitalism has known slumps and recessions, bubble and froth;… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
There are significant differences between the American and European version of capitalism. The American traditiionally emphasizes the need for limited government, light… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
When you stop a dictator, there are always risks. But there are greater risks in not stopping a dictator. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share
Ideally, when Christians meet, as Christians do, to take counsel together, their purpose is not ( or should not be) to ascertain what is… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share
There are dangers in consensus: it could be an attempt to satisfy people holding no particular views about anything. ... No great party can… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share
[When asked how it felt to be a female prime minister:] I don't know: I've never experienced the alternative. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share
It is sometimes said that because of our past we, as a people, expect too much and set our sights too high. That is… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share
Unless we change our ways and our direction, our greatness as a nation will soon be a footnote in the history books, a distant… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share
I don't think any woman in power really has a happy life unless she's got a large number of women friends ... because you… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share
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 Copy Share
What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share
The Government wants a peaceful settlement. But we totally reject a peaceful sell-out. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share
Major international interventions are doomed unless the US is directly or indirectly involved. But if American politicians, officials and servicemen are to be put… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share
We have made too much of one or two people, and we think that they can win or lose elections for us. Don't be… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share
I pay tribute to John Major's achievement in persuading the other 11 Community Heads of Government that they could move ahead to a Social… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share
