Freedom Quotes by Margaret Thatcher

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.

— Margaret Thatcher

The desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom

— Margaret Thatcher

The price of freedom is still, and always will be, eternal vigilance.

— Margaret Thatcher

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

— Margaret Thatcher

Freedom under the law must never be taken for granted.

— Margaret Thatcher

Marxists get up early to further their cause. We must get up even earlier to defend our freedom.

— Margaret Thatcher

All the general propositions favouring freedom I had .. imbibed at my father's knee or acquired by candle-end reading of Burke and Hayek...

— Margaret Thatcher

Being democratic is not enough, a majority cannot turn what is wrong into right. In order to be considered truly free, countries…

— Margaret Thatcher

We need a free economy not only for the renewed material prosperity it will bring, but because it is indispensable to individual…

— Margaret Thatcher

Freedom will destroy itself if it is not exercised within some sort of moral framework, some body of shared beliefs, some spiritual…

— Margaret Thatcher

I do not understand the unilateralists. If they hated nuclear weapons as much as I do they would want them down in…

— Margaret Thatcher

The messages on our banners in 1979 - freedom, opportunity, family, enterprise, ownership - are now inscribed on the banners in Leipzig,…

— Margaret Thatcher

If a Tory does not believe that private property is one of the main bulwarks of individual freedom, then he had better…

— Margaret Thatcher

We intend freedom and justice to conquer. Yes, we do have a creed and we wish others to share it. But it…

— Margaret Thatcher

If... many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and…

— Margaret Thatcher

For Dicey, writing in 1885, and for me reading him some seventy years later, the rule of law still had a very…

— Margaret Thatcher

We very much hope that as we get growth that we can reduce the burden of taxation, that we can reduce income…

— Margaret Thatcher

Let me give you my vision: A man's right to work as he will, to spend what he earns, to own property,…

— Margaret Thatcher

Object to merit and distinction, and you're setting your face against quality, independence, originality, genius against all the richness and variety of…

— Margaret Thatcher

Yet the basic fact remains: every regulation represents a restriction of liberty, every regulation has a cost. That is why, like marriage…

— Margaret Thatcher

Free enterprise has enabled the creative and the acquisitive urges of man to be given expression in a way which benefits all…

— Margaret Thatcher

My belief in free competitive economic enterprise does not rest solely or even mainly on arguments of economic efficiency, though, heaven knows,…

— Margaret Thatcher

Socialism's results have ranged between the merely shabby and the truly catastrophic - poverty, strife, oppression and, on the killing fields of…

— Margaret Thatcher

[M]ore than they wanted freedom, the Athenians wanted security. Yet they lost everything-security, comfort, and freedom. This was because they wanted not…

— Margaret Thatcher

That nations that have gone for equality, like Communism, have neither freedom nor justice nor equality, they've the greatest inequalities of all,…

— Margaret Thatcher

Today I have lost one of my dearest friends, England one of her greatest men. Keith Joseph understood that it was necessary…

— Margaret Thatcher

Our first duty to liberty is to keep our own. But it is also our duty - as Europeans - to keep…

— Margaret Thatcher

We who are living in the west today are fortunate. Freedom has been bequeathed to us. We have not had to carve…

— Margaret Thatcher

We believe in a free Europe, not a standardised Europe. Diminish that variety within the member states, and you impoverish the whole…

— Margaret Thatcher

I believe in the acceptance of personal responsibility, freedom of choice, and the British Empire, which took freedom and the rule of…

— Margaret Thatcher

When all the objectives of government include the achievement of equality - other than equality before the law - that government poses…

— Margaret Thatcher

I exercise my right as a free citizen to spend my own money in my own way, so that I can go…

— Margaret Thatcher

History has taught us that freedom cannot long survive unless it is based on moral foundations. You can get the economics right,…

— Margaret Thatcher

We had to fight the enemy without in the Falklands. We always have to be aware of the enemy within, which is…

— Margaret Thatcher

America, my friends, is the only country in the world actually founded on liberty - the only one. People went to America…

— Margaret Thatcher

A democratic Europe of nation states could be a force for liberty, enterprise and open trade. But, if creating a United States…

— Margaret Thatcher

The election of a man committed to the cause of freedom and the renewal of America's strength has given encouragement to all…

— 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

But the whole history of America is quite different from Europe. People went there to get away from the intolerance and constraints…

— Margaret Thatcher

While the Soviet Union has imposed its rule on its neighbours and drawn an iron curtain between east and west, we in…

— Margaret Thatcher