We had to fight the enemy without in the Falklands. We always have to be aware of the enemy within, which is… — 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
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
Let's make it clear: the Conservative Party has no plans for new NHS charges. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I call the Conservative Party now to a crusade. Not only the Conservative Party. I appeal to all those men and women… — 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
Yet the basic fact remains: every regulation represents a restriction of liberty, every regulation has a cost. That is why, like marriage… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I'm also very much aware that it is you who brought democracy to Chile, you set up a constitution suitable for democracy,… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
We must remember our duty to Nature before it is too late. That duty is constant. It is never completed. It lives… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Every Conservative desires peace. The threat to peace comes from Communism which has powerful forces ready to attack anywhere. Communism waits for… — 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
In the Conservative Party we have no truck with outmoded Marxist doctrine about class warfare. For us it is not who you… — 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
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
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
