It used to be about trying to do something. Now it's about trying to be someone. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The price of freedom is still, and always will be, eternal vigilance. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
No generation has a free hold on this earth. All we have is a life tenancy-with a full repairing lease. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing;… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
As a motive for terror, religion has more often than not required a good deal of lubrication by lucre. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Socialists have always spent much of their time seeking new titles for their beliefs, because the old versions so quickly become outdated… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Each generation has to stand up for democracy. It can't take anything for granted and may have to fight fundamental battles anew. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The Nuremburg trials were attacked at the time as 'victor's justice'. And this is precisely what they were - and were intended… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
During my lifetime most of the problems the world has faced have come, in one fashion or another, from mainland Europe and… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Watch your thoughts for they become words. Watch your words for they become actions. Watch your actions for they become habits. Watch… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
“Do you know, one of the greatest problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner 'I stand for consensus'? — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
We are not in politics to ignore peoples' worries, we are in politics to deal with them. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I was asked whether I was trying to restore Victorian values. I said straight out I was. And I am. — 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
