People are really rather afraid that this country might be rather swamped by people with a different culture. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
It is always important in matters of high politics to know what you do not know. Those who think that they know,… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
If one generation is expected to carry an excessive burden on behalf of another, it will seek by every means to avoid… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
There are too many people who imagine that there is something sophisticated about always believing the best of those who hate your… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Many of our troubles are due to the fact that our people turn to politicians for everything. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I personally have always voted for the death penalty because I believe that people who go out prepared to take the lives… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Communism produces neither dignity nor prosperity. It takes all power away from the people and places it in the hands of a… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I had the patriotic conviction that, given great leadership of the sort I heard from Winston Churchill in the radio broadcasts to… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
In the background lurks the scourge of international terrorism. There are people exercising power in a few countries and leading political factions… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
When government does its job properly people are free to do theirs. — 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
In a system of free trade and free markets poor countries - and poor people - are not poor because others are… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
But the whole history of America is quite different from Europe. People went there to get away from the intolerance and constraints… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Most women are far more intelligent than people give them credit for. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Socialists cry “Power to the people”, and raise the clenched fist as they say it. We all know what they really mean… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
They are all a rotten lot. Schmidt and the Americans and we are the only people who would do any standing up… — 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
I'm not a good butcher but I've had to learn to carve the joint. People expect a new look. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I am an undiluted admirer of American values and the American dream and I believe they will continue to inspire not just… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I too have a certain idea of America. Moreover, I would not feel entitled to say that of any other country, except… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
It is in a country's interests to keep faith with its allies. States in this sense are like people. If you have… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
There is no week, nor day, nor hour, when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their supreme… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
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 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
