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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The United States is contributing massively to the defence of Europe and we should be very grateful. — 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
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
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
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
