If we open our hearts to God, He has promised to work within us. — 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 your only opportunity is to be equal then it is not opportunity. — 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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
[On George H.W. Bush:] By 1990 I had learned that I had to defer to him in conversation and not to stint… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
A democratic Europe of nation states could be a force for liberty, enterprise and open trade. But, if creating a United States… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
It seems like cloud cuckoo land. If anyone is suggesting that I would go to Parliament and suggest the abolition of the… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
If one generation is expected to carry an excessive burden on behalf of another, it will seek by every means to avoid… — 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
Gentlemen, I have spent the night thinking about this Peruvian (peace) initiative and I have to tell you that if it is… — 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
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
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
In my work, you get used to criticisms. Of course you do, because there are a lot of people trying to get… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
If I were a German today, I would be proud, proud but also worried. I would be proud of the magnificent achievement… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Major international interventions are doomed unless the US is directly or indirectly involved. But if American politicians, officials and servicemen are to… — 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
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
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 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 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 you are guided by opinion polls, you are not practicing leadership -- you are practicing followership. — 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
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
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
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
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 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
When you stop a dictator, there are always risks. But there are greater risks in not stopping a dictator. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share
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
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
[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
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
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
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
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
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
The Government wants a peaceful settlement. But we totally reject a peaceful sell-out. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share
Major international interventions are doomed unless the US is directly or indirectly involved. But if American politicians, officials and servicemen are to be put… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share
We have made too much of one or two people, and we think that they can win or lose elections for us. Don't be… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share
I pay tribute to John Major's achievement in persuading the other 11 Community Heads of Government that they could move ahead to a Social… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share
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