Left-wing zealots have often been prepared to ride roughshod over due process and basic considerations of fairness when they think they can… — 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
At one end of the spectrum are the terrorist gangs within our borders, and the terrorist states which finance and arm them.… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
It is important not to allow ever wider coalition-building to become an end in itself. As we saw in the Gulf War… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
For the Christian there can be no social or political panaceas, no easy escapes from personal responsibility achieved by collectivising guilt or… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I am not one who, to quote an American author, believes that democracy and enterprise have finally won the battle of ideas… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We went back on a very similar manifesto to things I believe in. The difference is that after eighteen months to two… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
It is recorded how towards the end of the eighteenth century a Muslim visitor to England was taken to see the House… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I can cope with nine of them, so they ought to be able to stand one of me. They could end the… — 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