Margaret Thatcher

I'm happy as a dog with two dicks

— Margaret Thatcher

Consensus is the negation of leadership.

— Margaret Thatcher

You can't buck the market.

— Margaret Thatcher

Hope is no basis for a defense policy.

— Margaret Thatcher

I hate feminism. It is poison,

— Margaret Thatcher

I shall fight on, I shall fight to win.

— Margaret Thatcher

I want my money back!

— Margaret Thatcher

Tyranny must not prevail.

— Margaret Thatcher

The secret of happiness is to live within your income and pay your bills on time.

— Margaret Thatcher

There are too few rich and too few profits.

— Margaret Thatcher

When you hold back the successful, you penalize those who need help.

— Margaret Thatcher

Never flinch. Make up your own mind and do it.

— Margaret Thatcher

You turn if you want to. The Lady's not for turning.

— Margaret Thatcher

I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

— Margaret Thatcher

I can't bear Britain in decline. I just can't.

— Margaret Thatcher

Working hard may not make you rich, but it should make you successful.

— Margaret Thatcher

How thin is the crust of order over the fires of human appetite and the lust for naked power.

— Margaret Thatcher

Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people's money. It's quite a characteristic of them.

— Margaret Thatcher

I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always…

— Margaret Thatcher

“If you just set out to be liked, you will be prepared to compromise on anything at anytime, and would achieve nothing. ”

— Margaret Thatcher

What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner 'I stand for consensus'?

— Margaret Thatcher

I do believe that political arrangements which are based upon violence, intimidation and theft will eventually break down - and will deserve…

— Margaret Thatcher

I still want to play in it, maybe when I absolutely think I have no chance of playing in it my view…

— Margaret Thatcher

Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy.

— Margaret Thatcher

If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good…

— Margaret Thatcher

Under a Labour government, there's virtually nowhere you can put your savings where they would be safe from the state. ... If…

— Margaret Thatcher

I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a…

— Margaret Thatcher

Israel must never be expected to jeopardize her security: if she was ever foolish enough to do so, and then suffered for…

— Margaret Thatcher

Their pitiless ideology only survives because it is maintained by force. But the day comes when the anger and frustration of the…

— Margaret Thatcher

Left-wing zealots have often been prepared to ride roughshod over due process and basic considerations of fairness when they think they can…

— Margaret Thatcher

All corporatism – even when practised in societies where hard work, enterprise and cooperation are as highly valued as in Korea –…

— Margaret Thatcher

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

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

“I think we've been through a period where too many people have been given to understand that if they have a problem,…

— Margaret Thatcher

[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

I hate extremes of any kind. Communism [seeks] the domination of the state over the individual... All my life I have stood…

— Margaret Thatcher

I am not one who, to quote an American author, believes that democracy and enterprise have finally won the battle of ideas…

— Margaret Thatcher

I personally have always voted for the death penalty because I believe that people who go out prepared to take the lives…

— Margaret Thatcher

“Thought Leadership “The Downing Street Years” Book by Margaret Thatcher “I have a habit of comparing the phraseology of communiques . .…

— Margaret Thatcher

Of course you have a duty to show the disfigurations of society as well as its more agreeable aspects. But if TV…

— Margaret Thatcher