We need to create a mood where it is everywhere thought morally right for as many people as possible to acquire capital. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Object to merit and distinction, and you're setting your face against quality, independence, originality, genius against all the richness and variety of… — 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 need a free economy not only for the renewed material prosperity it will bring, but because it is indispensable to individual… — 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
If we are safe today, it is because America has stood with us. If we are to remain safe tomorrow, it will… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Our children need strong families raising them with sturdy virtues, not to be smothered in the cold arms of the state. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I am convinced that there is little force left in the Marxist stimulus to revolution. Its impetus is petering out as the… — 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
When you hold back the successful, you penalize those who need help. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
When others spoke of the fear of war, you spoke of the need for warriors and peace through strength. When others bewailed… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I remain totally convinced that when children are young, however busy we may be with the practical duties inside the home, themost… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
There are significant differences between the American and European version of capitalism. The American traditiionally emphasizes the need for limited government, light… — 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