Banner Quote by Margaret Thatcher

When you stop a dictator, there are always risks. But there are greater risks in not stopping a dictator.

— Margaret Thatcher

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

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

If it's me against 48, I feel sorry for the 48.

— Margaret Thatcher

[When asked how it felt to be a female prime minister:] I don't know: I've never experienced the alternative.

— Margaret Thatcher

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

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

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

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

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

Personal virtue is no substitute for political hard-headedness.

— Margaret Thatcher

The Government wants a peaceful settlement. But we totally reject a peaceful sell-out.

— Margaret Thatcher