People Quotes by Margaret Thatcher

You will only succeed if you know that what you are doing is right and you know how to bring out the…

— Margaret Thatcher

Many of our troubles are due to the fact that our people turn to politicians for everything.

— Margaret Thatcher

People are really rather afraid that this country might be rather swamped by people with a different culture.

— Margaret Thatcher

We should see to it that our people are steeped in a real knowledge and understanding of our national culture.

— Margaret Thatcher

No Western nation has to build a wall round itself to keep its people in.

— Margaret Thatcher

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

— Margaret Thatcher

Peace is hard work and we must not allow people to forget it.

— Margaret Thatcher

Young people ought not to be idle, it is very bad for them.

— Margaret Thatcher

We have made too much of one or two people, and we think that they can win or lose elections for us.…

— Margaret Thatcher

It is always important in matters of high politics to know what you do not know. Those who think that they know,…

— Margaret Thatcher

Socialists cry “Power to the people”, and raise the clenched fist as they say it. We all know what they really mean…

— Margaret Thatcher

In a system of free trade and free markets poor countries - and poor people - are not poor because others are…

— Margaret Thatcher

There are dangers in consensus: it could be an attempt to satisfy people holding no particular views about anything. ... No great…

— 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

Their pitiless ideology only survives because it is maintained by force. But the day comes when the anger and frustration of the…

— Margaret Thatcher

If you have a sense of purpose and a sense of direction, I believe people will follow you. Democracy isn't just about…

— Margaret Thatcher

Communism produces neither dignity nor prosperity. It takes all power away from the people and places it in the hands of a…

— Margaret Thatcher

Socialism's results have ranged between the merely shabby and the truly catastrophic - poverty, strife, oppression and, on the killing fields of…

— Margaret Thatcher

Individualism has come in for an enormous amount of criticism over the years. It still does. It is widely assumed to be…

— Margaret Thatcher

It has been suggested by some people in this country that I and my government will be a "soft touch" in the…

— Margaret Thatcher

I too have a certain idea of America. Moreover, I would not feel entitled to say that of any other country, except…

— Margaret Thatcher

I personally have always voted for the death penalty because I believe that people who go out prepared to take the lives…

— Margaret Thatcher

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

— Margaret Thatcher

What? What am I 'bound to be feeling?' People don’t think anymore. They feel. 'How are you feeling? No, I don’t feel…

— Margaret Thatcher

That nations that have gone for equality, like Communism, have neither freedom nor justice nor equality, they've the greatest inequalities of all,…

— Margaret Thatcher

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

— Margaret Thatcher

Law and order is a social service. Crime and the fear which the threat of crime induces can paralyse whole communities, keep…

— Margaret Thatcher

The people of the Falkland Islands, like the people of the United Kingdom, are an island race. They are few in number…

— Margaret Thatcher

In the background lurks the scourge of international terrorism. There are people exercising power in a few countries and leading political factions…

— Margaret Thatcher

There are forces more powerful and pervasive than the apparatus of war. You may chain a man, but you cannot chain his…

— Margaret Thatcher

Good Conservatives always pay their bills. And on time. Not like the Socialists who run up other people's bills.

— Margaret Thatcher

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

— Margaret Thatcher

I'm not a good butcher but I've had to learn to carve the joint. People expect a new look.

— Margaret Thatcher

Most women are far more intelligent than people give them credit for.

— Margaret Thatcher

Socialists don't like ordinary people choosing, for they might not choose Socialism.

— Margaret Thatcher

When government does its job properly people are free to do theirs.

— Margaret Thatcher

I couldn't live without work. That's what makes me so sympathetic towards those people who are unemployed. I don't know how they…

— Margaret Thatcher

Please don't use the word tough. People might get the impression that I don't care. And I do care, very deeply. Resilient,…

— Margaret Thatcher

I am an undiluted admirer of American values and the American dream and I believe they will continue to inspire not just…

— Margaret Thatcher

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