Way Quotes by Margaret Thatcher

... when a big man has a big idea I never like to stand in his way.

— Margaret Thatcher

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

— Margaret Thatcher

Socialism is in no way a curate's egg

— Margaret Thatcher

I believe our way of life is infinitely superior for every human being than any which the Communist creed can offer.

— Margaret Thatcher

This business of the working class is on its way out I think. After all, aren't I working class? I work jolly…

— Margaret Thatcher

The first step in calculating which way to go is to find out where you are.

— Margaret Thatcher

I'm back... and you knew I was coming. On my way here I passed a cinema with the sign 'The Mummy Returns'.

— Margaret Thatcher

I exercise my right as a free citizen to spend my own money in my own way, so that I can go…

— Margaret Thatcher

Every Conservative desires peace. The threat to peace comes from Communism which has powerful forces ready to attack anywhere. Communism waits for…

— Margaret Thatcher

Unless we change our ways and our direction, our greatness as a nation will soon be a footnote in the history books,…

— Margaret Thatcher

We are a British nation with British characteristics. Every country can take some small minorities and in many ways they add to…

— Margaret Thatcher

We went back on a very similar manifesto to things I believe in. The difference is that after eighteen months to two…

— Margaret Thatcher

We have been ruled by men who live by illusions ... the illusion that there is some other way of creating wealth…

— Margaret Thatcher

Free enterprise has enabled the creative and the acquisitive urges of man to be given expression in a way which benefits all…

— Margaret Thatcher

Geoffrey's personal style was very different from mine. He has a lovely speaking voice, a quiet speaking voice. But at Cabinet we…

— Margaret Thatcher

Ladies and gentlemen, I stand before you tonight in my … chiffon evening gown, my face softly made up, my fair hair…

— Margaret Thatcher

A bully has no respect for a weakling and the way to stop a bully is not to be weak. The way…

— Margaret Thatcher

It is sometimes said that because of our past we, as a people, expect too much and set our sights too high.…

— Margaret Thatcher

If in the 1930s nuclear weapons had been invented and the Allies had been faced by Nazi SS20s and Backfire Bombers, would…

— Margaret Thatcher

Consensus: “The process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to…

— Margaret Thatcher

The people of the Falkland Islands, like the people of the United Kingdom, are an island race. They are few in number…

— Margaret Thatcher

The choice facing the nation is between two totally different ways of life. And what a prize we have to fight for:…

— Margaret Thatcher

That nations that have gone for equality, like Communism, have neither freedom nor justice nor equality, they've the greatest inequalities of all,…

— Margaret Thatcher

Today I have lost one of my dearest friends, England one of her greatest men. Keith Joseph understood that it was necessary…

— Margaret Thatcher

In the background lurks the scourge of international terrorism. There are people exercising power in a few countries and leading political factions…

— Margaret Thatcher

Countries trade with each other - or to be more precise people buy and sell from each other across frontiers - because…

— Margaret Thatcher

It can be argued - and rightly - that Taiwan is not just another regional issue: after all, the Chinese regard it…

— Margaret Thatcher

My belief in free competitive economic enterprise does not rest solely or even mainly on arguments of economic efficiency, though, heaven knows,…

— Margaret Thatcher