To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I call the Conservative Party now to a crusade. Not only the Conservative Party. I appeal to all those men and women… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Communist regimes were not some unfortunate aberration, some historical deviation from a socialist ideal. They were the ultimate expression, unconstrained by democratic… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The real case against socialism is not its economic inefficiency, though on all sides there is evidence of that. Much more fundamental… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
And what a prize we have to fight for: no less than the chance to banish from our land the dark divisive… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The choice facing the nation is between two totally different ways of life. And what a prize we have to fight 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
I am much nearer to creating one nation than Labour will ever be. Socialism is two nations. The privileged rulers, and everyone… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of everyone else's money. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Socialists don't like ordinary people choosing, for they might not choose Socialism. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Socialism lays an bad egg by killing the capitalism that lays the golden eggs — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
No theory of government was ever given a fairer test or a more prolonged experiment in a democratic country than democratic socialism… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Socialism's results have ranged between the merely shabby and the truly catastrophic - poverty, strife, oppression and, on the killing fields of… — 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
