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
There is no such thing as society, there is a living tapestry of men and women and the beauty of that tapestry,… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
History has taught us that freedom cannot long survive unless it is based on moral foundations. You can get the economics right,… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Whether manufactured by black, white, brown or yellow hands, a widget remains a widget – and it will be bought anywhere if… — 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
The virtues prized in free countries are honesty, self-discipline, a sense of responsibility to one's family, a sense of loyalty to one's… — 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
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