No Western nation has to build a wall round itself to keep its people in. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Wars are not caused by the buildup of weapons. They are caused when an aggressor believes he can achieve his objectives at… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
We speak of peace, yes, but whose peace? Poland's? Bulgaria's? The peace of the grave? — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
We're saying to anyone who dares to attack us, Do not do it, you couldn't win, the result would be devastating! I… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The messages on our banners in 1979 - freedom, opportunity, family, enterprise, ownership - are now inscribed on the banners in Leipzig,… — 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
If we are safe today, it is because America has stood with us. If we are to remain safe tomorrow, it will… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
(On The International Criminal Court) "For the victors of the Cold War to submit to an unelected, unaccountable, and almost certainly hostile… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Communist regimes were not some unfortunate aberration, some historical deviation from a socialist ideal. They were the ultimate expression, unconstrained by democratic… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
When others spoke of the fear of war, you spoke of the need for warriors and peace through strength. When others bewailed… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Ladies and gentlemen, I stand before you tonight in my … chiffon evening gown, my face softly made up, my fair hair… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Their pitiless ideology only survives because it is maintained by force. But the day comes when the anger and frustration of the… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I hate extremes of any kind. Communism [seeks] the domination of the state over the individual... All my life I have stood… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Isn't a policy of conventional weapons, with the terrible bombs raining down, with the missiles, with the aircraft, with the submarines, with… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
A world without nuclear weapons may be a dream but you cannot base a sure defence on dreams. Without far greater trust… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
[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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
The Government wants a peaceful settlement. But we totally reject a peaceful sell-out. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
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