Margaret Thatcher Quotes

The Russians put guns before butter. We put just about everything before guns.

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I am not one who, to quote an American author, believes that democracy and enterprise have finally won the battle of ideas - that we have therefore arrived at the end of history, and there is nothing left to fight for. That would be unutterably complacent, indeed foolish. There will always be threats to freedom, not only from frontal assaults, but more insidiously by erosion from within.

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We had to fight the enemy without in the Falklands. We always have to be aware of the enemy within, which is much more difficult to fight and more dangerous to liberty.

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We shall take whatever action is necessary to contain the growth of the money supply. The government, unlike so many of its predecessors, will face up to economic realities.

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We simply cannot delegate the exercise of mercy and generosity to others.

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To accuse me of being too inflexible is poppycock.

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Let us never forget this fundamental truth: the State has no source of money other than money which people earn themselves. If the State wishes to spend more it can do so only by borrowing your savings or by taxing you more. It is no good thinking that someone else will pay - that 'someone else' is you. There is no such thing as public money; there is only taxpayers' money.

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There are dangers in consensus: it could be an attempt to satisfy people holding no particular views about anything. ... No great party can survive except on the basis of firm beliefs about what it wants to do.

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Rooster, maybe well crows, but the eggs still bears the chicken.

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When I'm out of politics I'm going to run a business, it'll be called rent-a-spine

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No Western nation has to build a wall round itself to keep its people in.

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Forget that I'm a woman. Forget the accusations that I am a Right Winger demanding privilege - I had precious little privilege in my early years.

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I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

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We do not achieve happiness or salvation in isolation from each other but as members of society

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The real case against socialism is not its economic inefficiency, though on all sides there is evidence of that. Much more fundamental is its basic immorality.

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The feminists hate me, don't they? And I don't blame them. For I hate feminism. It is poison.

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

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Putting the World to Rights

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My first guiding principle is this: willing and active co-operation between independent sovereign states. Europe will be stronger precisely because it has France as France, Spain as Spain, Britain as Britain, each with its own customs, traditions and identity. It would be folly to try to fit them into some sort of identikit European personality.

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The messages on our banners in 1979 - freedom, opportunity, family, enterprise, ownership - are now inscribed on the banners in Leipzig, Warsaw, Budapest and even Moscow.

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