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
America, my friends, is the only country in the world actually founded on liberty - the only one. People went to America… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
We had to fight the enemy without in the Falklands. We always have to be aware of the enemy within, which is… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 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
Being democratic is not enough, a majority cannot turn what is wrong into right. In order to be considered truly free, countries… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
History has taught us that freedom cannot long survive unless it is based on moral foundations. You can get the economics right,… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Yet the basic fact remains: every regulation represents a restriction of liberty, every regulation has a cost. That is why, like marriage… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The legal system we have and the rule of law are far more responsible for our traditional liberties than any system of… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
But the whole history of America is quite different from Europe. People went there to get away from the intolerance and constraints… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
For Dicey, writing in 1885, and for me reading him some seventy years later, the rule of law still had a very… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
...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 Copy Share Image
If... many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Socialism's results have ranged between the merely shabby and the truly catastrophic - poverty, strife, oppression and, on the killing fields of… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
There are forces more powerful and pervasive than the apparatus of war. You may chain a man, but you cannot chain his… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Our first duty to liberty is to keep our own. But it is also our duty - as Europeans - to keep… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
We believe in a free Europe, not a standardised Europe. Diminish that variety within the member states, and you impoverish the whole… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
When all the objectives of government include the achievement of equality - other than equality before the law - that government poses… — 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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