Men and women Quotes by Margaret Thatcher

12 Men and women quotes by Margaret Thatcher

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Thatcher’s brief set still carries her signature forthrightness. These twelve quotes give a taste of how she viewed the contributions and challenges of both sexes within public life.

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It is one of the great weaknesses of reasonable men and women that they imagine that projects which fly in the face…

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There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

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There is little hope for democracy if the hearts of men and women in democratic societies cannot be touched by a call…

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The choice facing the nation is between two totally different ways of life. And what a prize we have to fight for:…

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I want a capital-earning democracy. Every man and woman a capitalist. Housing is the start. If you're a man or woman of…

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“I think we have gone through a period when too many children and people have been given to understand 'I have a…

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“I think we've been through a period where too many people have been given to understand that if they have a problem,…

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People constantly requesting government intervention are casting their problems at society. And, you know, there's no such thing as society. There are…

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The spirit of the South Atlantic was the spirit of Britain at her best. It has been said that we surprised the…

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I call the Conservative Party now to a crusade. Not only the Conservative Party. I appeal to all those men and women…

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There is no such thing as society, there is a living tapestry of men and women and the beauty of that tapestry,…

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The truths of the Judaic-Christian tradition, are infinitely precious, not only, as I believe, because they are true, but also because they…

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When you stop a dictator, there are always risks. But there are greater risks in not stopping a dictator.

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If it's me against 48, I feel sorry for the 48.

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[When asked how it felt to be a female prime minister:] I don't know: I've never experienced the alternative.

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It is sometimes said that because of our past we, as a people, expect too much and set our sights too high. That is…

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Unless we change our ways and our direction, our greatness as a nation will soon be a footnote in the history books, a distant…

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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…

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People from my sort of background needed grammar schools to compete with children from privileged homes like Shirley Williams and Anthony Wedgwood Benn.

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What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is…

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Personal virtue is no substitute for political hard-headedness.

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The Government wants a peaceful settlement. But we totally reject a peaceful sell-out.

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Major international interventions are doomed unless the US is directly or indirectly involved. But if American politicians, officials and servicemen are to be put…

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