If your only opportunity is to be equal then it is not opportunity. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Let our children grow tall and some taller than others if they have it in them to do so. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
If we open our hearts to God, He has promised to work within us. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Had I faltered we would have neither the success nor the international reputation we have. Yet when a woman is strong she… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I don't want to fight any wars; if you can get them off before we get there, you do it, but off… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
If you are guided by opinion polls, you are not practicing leadership -- you are practicing followership. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
If someone is confronting our essential liberties, if someone is inflicting injuries and harm, by God I'll confront them! — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
If a Tory does not believe that private property is one of the main bulwarks of individual freedom, then he had better… — 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
I wouldn't be worth my salt if I weren't attracting some controversy and criticism. Everyone in the world who has done something… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Under a Labour government, there's virtually nowhere you can put your savings where they would be safe from the state. ... If… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Freedom will destroy itself if it is not exercised within some sort of moral framework, some body of shared beliefs, some spiritual… — 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
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
I do not understand the unilateralists. If they hated nuclear weapons as much as I do they would want them down in… — 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
Gentlemen, if we don't cut spending we will be bankrupt. Yes, the medicine is harsh, but the patient requires it in order… — 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
We have made too much of one or two people, and we think that they can win or lose elections for us.… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I pay tribute to John Major's achievement in persuading the other 11 Community Heads of Government that they could move ahead to… — 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
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
Of course you have a duty to show the disfigurations of society as well as its more agreeable aspects. But if TV… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
If the Europeans truly wish to improve their NATO contribution they can show it simply enough. They can establish professional armed forces,… — 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
It can be argued - and rightly - that Taiwan is not just another regional issue: after all, the Chinese regard it… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Let us never forget this fundamental truth: the State has no source of money other than money which people earn themselves. If… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
There is little hope for democracy if the hearts of men and women in democratic societies cannot be touched by a call… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
They are all a rotten lot. Schmidt and the Americans and we are the only people who would do any standing up… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
One of my favourite quotations is: 'That which thy father bequeathed thee, earn it anew, if thou wouldst possess it.' — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Choice is the essence of ethics: if there were no choice there would be no ethics, no good, no evil; good and… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
If you want to get something said in the politics tell a man. If you want to get something done in the… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Being powerful is a lot like being a woman: If you have to tell someone that you are, invariably, you are not. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
If a woman like Eva Peron with no ideals can get that far, think how far I can go with the ideals… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
If there is one instance in which a foreign policy I pursued met with unambiguous failure, it was my policy on German… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Do you think you would ever have heard of Christianity if the Apostles had gone out and said, ‘I believe in consensus?’ — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Israel must never be expected to jeopardize her security: if she was ever foolish enough to do so, and then suffered for… — 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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