What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner 'I stand for consensus'? — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
We have been ruled by men who live by illusions ... the illusion that there is some other way of creating wealth… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
What we should grasp, however, from the lessons of European history is that, first, there is nothing necessarily benevolent about programmes of… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I cannot imagine how any diplomat, or any dramatist, could improve on (Ronald Reagan's) words to Mikhail Gorbachev at the Geneva summit:… — 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
If in the 1930s nuclear weapons had been invented and the Allies had been faced by Nazi SS20s and Backfire Bombers, would… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I think our support for the EEC has been very half-hearted. You really cannot join any group of nations and spend all… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
We who are living in the west today are fortunate. Freedom has been bequeathed to us. We have not had to carve… — 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
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
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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