During my lifetime most of the problems the world has faced have come, in one fashion or another, from mainland Europe and… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
A man who, beyond the age of 26, finds himself on a bus can count himself as a failure, — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The Nuremburg trials were attacked at the time as 'victor's justice'. And this is precisely what they were - and were intended… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Each generation has to stand up for democracy. It can't take anything for granted and may have to fight fundamental battles anew. — 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
No generation has a free hold on this earth. All we have is a life tenancy-with a full repairing lease. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Marxists get up early to further their cause. We must get up even earlier to defend our freedom. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
If your only opportunity is to be equal then it is not opportunity. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
We are not in politics to ignore peoples' worries, we are in politics to deal with them. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
We simply cannot delegate the exercise of mercy and generosity to others. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner 'I stand for consensus'? — 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
