Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
No generation has a free hold on this earth. All we have is a life tenancy-with a full repairing lease. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Life in a free society...is heaven on earth to life in a socialist society such as Russia. — 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
There is much to be said for trying to improve some disadvantaged people’s lot. There is nothing to be said for trying… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
We do not have a freehold on the earth, only a full repairing lease — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Whether at home or abroad, the task of statesman is to work with human nature warts and all, and to draw on… — 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