Margaret Thatcher Quotes


Margaret Hilda Thatcher, ( 13 October 1925 – 8 April 2013) was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and the Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. She was the longest-serving British Prime Minister of the 20th century and is the only woman to have held the office. A Soviet journalist called her the "Iron Lady", a nickname that became associated with her uncompromising politics and leadership style. As Prime Minister, she implemented policies that have come to be known as Thatcherism.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.


I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job.

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

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

If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim.

Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

The spirit of envy can destroy; it can never build

Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.

To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.

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