Margaret Thatcher Quotes

You don’t tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

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

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

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

Of course it’s the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

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.

If… many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.

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

Ought we not to ask the media to agree among themselves a voluntary code of conduct, under which they would not say or show anything which could assist the terrorists‘ morale or their cause while the hijack lasted.

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

What Britain needs is an iron lady.

I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.

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.

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

The spirit of envy can destroy; it can never build.

It’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

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 lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

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

Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.

We were told our campaign wasn’t sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment.

I’ve got a woman‘s ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

We Conservatives hate unemployment.

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.

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn’t a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

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

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

It pays to know the enemy – not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.