It has been suggested by some people in this country that I and my Government will be a 'soft touch' in the… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Law and order is a social service. Crime and the fear which the threat of crime induces can paralyse whole communities, keep… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The truths of the Judaic-Christian tradition, are infinitely precious, not only, as I believe, because they are true, but also because they… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I'll stay until I'm tired of it. So long as Britain needs me, I shall never be tired of it. — 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
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
We must remember our duty to Nature before it is too late. That duty is constant. It is never completed. It lives… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Countries trade with each other - or to be more precise people buy and sell from each other across frontiers - because… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
It has been suggested by some people in this country that I and my government will be a "soft touch" in the… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
It took us a long time to get rid of the effects of the French Revolution 200 years ago. We don't want… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
It's okay, Chancellor, you can touch them. Sometimes I just strip down to a tank top and stare at these guns in… — 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