Margaret Thatcher Quotes

they are casting their problems on society and who is society? There is no such thing! There are individual men and women and there are families and no government can do anything except through people and people look to themselves first. It's our duty to look after ourselves and then also to help look after our neighbour and life's a reciprocal business and people have got the entitlements too much in mind without the obligations

They're casting their problem on society. And, you know, there is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first. It's our duty to look after ourselves and then, also to look after our neighbour. People have got the entitlements too much in mind, without the obligations...

The ANC is a typical terrorist organisation ... Anyone who thinks it is going to run the government in South Africa is living in cloud-cuckoo land

I'm also very much aware that it is you who brought democracy to Chile

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.

Being a leader is like being a lady, if you have to go around telling people you are one, you aren't.

If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothin

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

Home is where you come to when you have nothing better to do.

In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman.

“Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.”

People from my sort of background needed Grammar schools to compete with children from privileged homes like Shirley Williams and [Tony] Anthony Wedgwood Benn.

The trouble with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money

Of course he hates choice. Of course he hates higher standards. Of course he hates opportunity. He is socialist—a crypto-communist.

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

I was told beforehand my arrival was unscheduled, but on the way here I passed a local cinema and it turns out you were expecting me after all. The billboard read 'The Mummy Returns'.

State Socialism is not in the character of the British people. It has no place in our traditions. It has no hold on our hearts.

I will go on criticising Socialism, and opposing Socialism because it is bad for Britain... Britain and Socialism are not the same thing. As long as I have health and strength, they never will be.

The Russians said that I was an Iron Lady. They were right. Britain needs an Iron Lady.

We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain, only to see them re-imposed at a European level with a European super-state exercising a new dominance from Brussels.