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
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 am an ally of the United States. We believe the same things, we believe passionately in the same battle of ideas,… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Our children need strong families raising them with sturdy virtues, not to be smothered in the cold arms of the state. — 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
Under a Labour government, there's virtually nowhere you can put your savings where they would be safe from the state. ... If… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Let us never forget this fundamental truth: The State has no source of money other than the money people themselves earn. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The patronage state is an arrogant state. It assumes it can spend your money better than you do. Yet it expects you… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
You want to keep more of the money you earn? I'm afraid that's very selfish. We shall want to tax that away.… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
My first guiding principle is this: willing and active co-operation between independent sovereign states. Europe will be stronger precisely because it has… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
For the Christian there can be no social or political panaceas, no easy escapes from personal responsibility achieved by collectivising guilt or… — 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
At one end of the spectrum are the terrorist gangs within our borders, and the terrorist states which finance and arm them.… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I hate extremes of any kind. Communism [seeks] the domination of the state over the individual... All my life I have stood… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Let me give you my vision: A man's right to work as he will, to spend what he earns, to own property,… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I have made it quite clear that a unified Ireland was one solution that is out. A second solution was a confederation… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Major international interventions are doomed unless the US is directly or indirectly involved. But if American politicians, officials and servicemen are to… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
We believe in a free Europe, not a standardised Europe. Diminish that variety within the member states, and you impoverish the whole… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The United States is contributing massively to the defence of Europe and we should be very grateful. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain, only to see them re-imposed at a European level… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
We must not fall into the trap of projecting our own morality onto the Soviet leaders. They do not share our aspirations,… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Some Socialists seem to believe that people should be numbers in a State computer. We believe they should be individuals. We are… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Rogue states never turn out to be quite the pariahs they are deemed. They are only able to cause, or at least… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Let us never forget this fundamental truth: the State has no source of money other than money which people earn themselves. If… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
We want a society in which we are free to make choices, to make mistakes, to be generous and compassionate. That is… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I believe we should continue to have a partnership of national states each retaining the right to protect its vital interests, but… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Whether it is in the United States or in mainland Europe, written constitutions have one great weakness. That is that they contain… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
We should not expect the state to appear in the guise of an extravagant good fairy at every christening, a loquacious companion… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Misgovernment...will often be reflected in oppressive or aggressive policies towards groups within the state or towards the state's neighbours. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
A democratic Europe of nation states could be a force for liberty, enterprise and open trade. But, if creating a United States… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
When you take into public ownership a profitable industry the profits soon disappear. The goose that laid the golden eggs goes broody.… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
[M]ore than they wanted freedom, the Athenians wanted security. Yet they lost everything-security, comfort, and freedom. This was because they wanted not… — 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
![“Communist regimes were not some unfortunate aberration, some historical deviation from a socialist ideal. They were the ultimate expression, unconstrained by democratic and electoral pressures, of what socialism is all about. ... In short, the state [is] everything and the individual nothing.” quote by Margaret Thatcher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/999/margaret-thatcher-463_aberration_communist-regimes-were-not-some-unfortun_1069815.jpg)
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![“[M]ore than they wanted freedom, the Athenians wanted security. Yet they lost everything-security, comfort, and freedom. This was because they wanted not to give to society, but for society to give to them. The freedom they were seeking was freedom from responsibility. It is no wonder, then, that…” quote by Margaret Thatcher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/12b/margaret-thatcher-463_athenians_m-ore-than-they-wanted-freedom-the-athen_3205501.jpg)
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