Terrorism thrives on a free society. The terrorist uses the feelings in a free society to sap the will of civilization to… — 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
In a system of free trade and free markets poor countries - and poor people - are not poor because others are… — 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
Whether manufactured by black, white, brown or yellow hands, a widget remains a widget – and it will be bought anywhere if… — 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
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
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
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
There is no week, nor day, nor hour, when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their supreme… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
We do not believe that if you cut back what government does you diminish its authority. On the contrary, a government that… — 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
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 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
It had the effect of cementing the Anglo-American alliance. What's the good of having bases if when you want to use them… — 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
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 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
Let our children grow tall and some taller than others if they have it in them to do so. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I want a capital-earning democracy. Every man and woman a capitalist. Housing is the start. If you're a man or woman of… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I'm standing up for the right of self-determination. I'm standing up for our territory. I'm standing up for our people. I'm standing… — 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
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
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
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
