During my lifetime most of the problems the world has faced have come, in one fashion or another, from mainland Europe and… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I do not understand the unilateralists. If they hated nuclear weapons as much as I do they would want them down in… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Why in the world anyone in America is allowing another language (other than English) to be his first... I don't know — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The Russians are bent on world dominance, and they are rapidly acquiring the means to become the most powerful imperial nation the… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
America, my friends, is the only country in the world actually founded on liberty - the only one. People went to America… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
While the Soviet Union has imposed its rule on its neighbours and drawn an iron curtain between east and west, we in… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I think our support for the EEC has been very half-hearted. You really cannot join any group of nations and spend all… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Our first duty to liberty is to keep our own. But it is also our duty - as Europeans - to keep… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
When in August 1793 a British delegation showed their hosts a terrestrial globe, it turned into a diplomatic incident, for the Chinese… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
...Conservatives have excellent credentials to speak about human rights. By our efforts, and with precious little help from self-styled liberals, we were… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The spirit of the South Atlantic was the spirit of Britain at her best. It has been said that we surprised the… — 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
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
In my lifetime all our problems have come from mainland Europe and all the solutions have come from the English-speaking nations across… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The woman's mission is not to enhance the masculine spirit, but to express the feminine; hers is not to preserve a man-made… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The Third World is very much like the First World - just poorer: what works for the West will work for the… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
During my lifetime most of the problems the world has faced have come, in one fashion or other, from mainland Europe, and… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Both the President and Mr Gorbachev have said that they want to see a world without nuclear weapons. I cannot see a… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I wouldn't be worth my salt if I weren't attracting some controversy and criticism. Everyone in the world who has done something… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
A world without nuclear weapons may be a dream but you cannot base a sure defence on dreams. Without far greater trust… — 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