Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
We should see to it that our people are steeped in a real knowledge and understanding of our national culture. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
No Western nation has to build a wall round itself to keep its people in. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Many of our troubles are due to the fact that our people turn to politicians for everything. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
People are really rather afraid that this country might be rather swamped by people with a different culture. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
You will only succeed if you know that what you are doing is right and you know how to bring out the… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Socialists don't like ordinary people choosing, for they might not choose Socialism. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
When government does its job properly people are free to do theirs. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
You can present people with ideas they may come to believe in, and as a result of them they will act, if… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
People from my sort of background needed grammar schools to compete with children from privileged homes like Shirley Williams and Anthony Wedgwood… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
If you have a sense of purpose and a sense of direction, I believe people will follow you. Democracy isn't just about… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Please don't use the word tough. People might get the impression that I don't care. And I do care, very deeply. Resilient,… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I am an undiluted admirer of American values and the American dream and I believe they will continue to inspire not just… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I couldn't live without work. That's what makes me so sympathetic towards those people who are unemployed. I don't know how they… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
It is sometimes said that because of our past we, as a people, expect too much and set our sights too high.… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
We are a British nation with British characteristics. Every country can take some small minorities and in many ways they add to… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
It has been suggested by some people in this country that I and my Government will be a 'soft touch' in the… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
People constantly requesting government intervention are casting their problems at society. And, you know, there's no such thing as society. There are… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
What? What am I 'bound to be feeling?' People don’t think anymore. They feel. 'How are you feeling? No, I don’t feel… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
If... many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Communism produces neither dignity nor prosperity. It takes all power away from the people and places it in the hands of a… — 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
The spirit of the South Atlantic was the spirit of Britain at her best. It has been said that we surprised the… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Law and order is a social service. Crime and the fear which the threat of crime induces can paralyse whole communities, keep… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There are forces more powerful and pervasive than the apparatus of war. You may chain a man, but you cannot chain his… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
In the background lurks the scourge of international terrorism. There are people exercising power in a few countries and leading political factions… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The people of the Falkland Islands, like the people of the United Kingdom, are an island race. They are few in number… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Most women are far more intelligent than people give them credit for. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I'm not a good butcher but I've had to learn to carve the joint. People expect a new look. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Good Conservatives always pay their bills. And on time. Not like the Socialists who run up other people's bills. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
It is absolutely right that President Reagan considers SDI and thank goodness people considered nuclear research before the last war. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
There are too many people who imagine that there is something sophisticated about always believing the best of those who hate your… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
It is in a country's interests to keep faith with its allies. States in this sense are like people. If you have… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
In a system of free trade and free markets poor countries - and poor people - are not poor because others are… — 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
