Margaret Thatcher Quotes

This lady is not for turning.

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

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

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

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

To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.

Marxists get up early to further their cause. We must get up even earlier to defend our freedom.

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.

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.

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

Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.

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

It’s a funny old world.

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.

Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.

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.

I can’t help to spit nails when just thinking about Trade Unions