Money Quotes by Margaret Thatcher

I want my money back!

— Margaret Thatcher

The government has no money of its own. It's all your money.

— Margaret Thatcher

I have the money and they won't get their hands on it.

— Margaret Thatcher

“The problem with socialists, is that they always run out of other people's money,”

— Margaret Thatcher

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.

— Margaret Thatcher

I started out in life with two great advantages: No money and good parents.

— Margaret Thatcher

Never in the history of human credit has so much been owed.

— Margaret Thatcher

Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.

— Margaret Thatcher

Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money.

— Margaret Thatcher

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well.

— Margaret Thatcher

Let us never forget this fundamental truth: The State has no source of money other than the money people themselves earn.

— Margaret Thatcher

That is what capitalism is: a system that brings wealth to the many, not just the few.

— Margaret Thatcher

We have been ruled by men who live by illusions ... the illusion that there is some other way of creating wealth…

— Margaret Thatcher

“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.”

— Margaret Thatcher

The patronage state is an arrogant state. It assumes it can spend your money better than you do. Yet it expects you…

— Margaret Thatcher

We should not underestimate the enormity of the task which lies ahead. But little can be achieved without sound money. It is…

— Margaret Thatcher

It is your tax which pays for public spending. The government have no money of their own. There is only taxpayers' money.

— Margaret Thatcher

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let…

— Margaret Thatcher

We shall take whatever action is necessary to contain the growth of the money supply. The government, unlike so many of its…

— Margaret Thatcher

You want to keep more of the money you earn? I'm afraid that's very selfish. We shall want to tax that away.…

— Margaret Thatcher

Under a Labour government, there's virtually nowhere you can put your savings where they would be safe from the state. ... If…

— Margaret Thatcher

Let us never forget this fundamental truth: the State has no source of money other than money which people earn themselves. If…

— Margaret Thatcher

Nevertheless, the Tenth Commandment-'Thou shalt not covet'-recognizes that making money and owning things could become selfish activities. But it is not the…

— Margaret Thatcher

Working hard may not make you rich, but it should make you successful.

— Margaret Thatcher

There are too few rich and too few profits.

— Margaret Thatcher

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

— Margaret Thatcher

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions - he had money too.

— Margaret Thatcher

The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of everyone else's money.

— Margaret Thatcher

Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people's money. It's quite a characteristic of them.

— Margaret Thatcher

The accumulation of wealth is a process which is of itself morally neutral. True, as Christianity teaches, riches bring temptations. But then…

— Margaret Thatcher