I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
... when a big man has a big idea I never like to stand in his way. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The first step in calculating which way to go is to find out where you are. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I believe our way of life is infinitely superior for every human being than any which the Communist creed can offer. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I exercise my right as a free citizen to spend my own money in my own way, so that I can go… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
We have been ruled by men who live by illusions ... the illusion that there is some other way of creating wealth… — 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,… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Free enterprise has enabled the creative and the acquisitive urges of man to be given expression in a way which benefits all… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
We went back on a very similar manifesto to things I believe in. The difference is that after eighteen months to two… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
We are a British nation with British characteristics. Every country can take some small minorities and in many ways they add to… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Every Conservative desires peace. The threat to peace comes from Communism which has powerful forces ready to attack anywhere. Communism waits for… — 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
A bully has no respect for a weakling and the way to stop a bully is not to be weak. The way… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Ladies and gentlemen, I stand before you tonight in my … chiffon evening gown, my face softly made up, my fair hair… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Countries trade with each other - or to be more precise people buy and sell from each other across frontiers - because… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Consensus: “The process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
If in the 1930s nuclear weapons had been invented and the Allies had been faced by Nazi SS20s and Backfire Bombers, would… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
My belief in free competitive economic enterprise does not rest solely or even mainly on arguments of economic efficiency, though, heaven knows,… — 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.… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Today I have lost one of my dearest friends, England one of her greatest men. Keith Joseph understood that it was necessary… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In the background lurks the scourge of international terrorism. There are people exercising power in a few countries and leading political factions… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The people of the Falkland Islands, like the people of the United Kingdom, are an island race. They are few in number… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
It can be argued - and rightly - that Taiwan is not just another regional issue: after all, the Chinese regard it… — 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
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