Margaret Thatcher Quotes

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.

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 look to themselves first.

No government on its own can make a country prosperous. Only the people who live in it can do that—by producing and delivering the right products at the right price, at the right time. If we cannot do that, if we cannot compete on equal terms in international markets, if we cannot earn our living in the real world, then no amount of nationalist myths or socialist illusions will keep the chill winds out.

This was the day I was meant not to see

I like Mr. Gorbachev. We can do business together.

Some Chancellors are macro-economic. Other Chancellors are fiscal. This one is just plain cheap.

I would just like to remember some words of St. Francis of Assisi which I think are really just particularly apt at the moment. ‘Where there is discord, may we bring harmony. Where there is error, may we bring truth. Where there is doubt, may we bring faith. And where there is despair, may we bring hope’.

We have ceased to be a nation in retreat. We have instead a newfound confidence – born in the economic battles at home and tested and found true 8,000 miles away… Britain found herself again in the South Atlantic and will not look back from the victory she has won.

The Russians are bent on world dominance, and they are rapidly acquiring the means to become the most powerful imperial nation the world has seen.

These few men are the wreckers in our midst. They're not the mass of trade unionists, but there are a few militants who are the wreckers. And I think they do as much damage to the decent name of trade unionism as they do to our economy. They seek to use freedom in order to destroy freedom.

To those waiting with bated breath for that favourite media catchphrase, the ‘U’ turn, I have only one thing to say. 'You turn if you want to. The lady's not for turning.'