Liberty Quotes by Margaret Thatcher

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

— Margaret Thatcher

We had to fight the enemy without in the Falklands. We always have to be aware of the enemy within, which is…

— Margaret Thatcher

America, my friends, is the only country in the world actually founded on liberty - the only one. People went to America…

— Margaret Thatcher

A democratic Europe of nation states could be a force for liberty, enterprise and open trade. But, if creating a United States…

— Margaret Thatcher

The election of a man committed to the cause of freedom and the renewal of America's strength has given encouragement to all…

— Margaret Thatcher

We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain, only to see them re-imposed at a European level…

— Margaret Thatcher

Being democratic is not enough, a majority cannot turn what is wrong into right. In order to be considered truly free, countries…

— Margaret Thatcher

If someone is confronting our essential liberties, if someone is inflicting injuries and harm, by God I'll confront them!

— Margaret Thatcher

When all the objectives of government include the achievement of equality - other than equality before the law - that government poses…

— Margaret Thatcher

Yet the basic fact remains: every regulation represents a restriction of liberty, every regulation has a cost. That is why, like marriage…

— Margaret Thatcher

But the whole history of America is quite different from Europe. People went there to get away from the intolerance and constraints…

— Margaret Thatcher

Human rights did not begin with the French Revolution...[they] really stem from a mixture of Judaism and Christianity...[we English] had 1688, our…

— Margaret Thatcher

The legal system we have and the rule of law are far more responsible for our traditional liberties than any system of…

— Margaret Thatcher

...Conservatives have excellent credentials to speak about human rights. By our efforts, and with precious little help from self-styled liberals, we were…

— Margaret Thatcher

If... many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and…

— Margaret Thatcher

For Dicey, writing in 1885, and for me reading him some seventy years later, the rule of law still had a very…

— Margaret Thatcher

Socialism's results have ranged between the merely shabby and the truly catastrophic - poverty, strife, oppression and, on the killing fields of…

— Margaret Thatcher

Our first duty to liberty is to keep our own. But it is also our duty - as Europeans - to keep…

— Margaret Thatcher

There are forces more powerful and pervasive than the apparatus of war. You may chain a man, but you cannot chain his…

— Margaret Thatcher

We believe in a free Europe, not a standardised Europe. Diminish that variety within the member states, and you impoverish the whole…

— Margaret Thatcher

History has taught us that freedom cannot long survive unless it is based on moral foundations. You can get the economics right,…

— Margaret Thatcher