The legal system we have and the rule of law are far more responsible for our traditional liberties than any system of… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I believe in the acceptance of personal responsibility, freedom of choice, and the British Empire, which took freedom and the rule of… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Being democratic is not enough, a majority cannot turn what is wrong into right. In order to be considered truly free, countries… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
It is recorded how towards the end of the eighteenth century a Muslim visitor to England was taken to see the House… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
For Dicey, writing in 1885, and for me reading him some seventy years later, the rule of law still had a very… — 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
