Margaret Thatcher Quotes

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

No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary – not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn’t want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent.

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

If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.

What Britain needs is an iron lady.

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions; he had money as well.

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

I like Mr. Gorbachev, we can do business together.

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.

The price of freedom is still, and always will be, eternal vigilance.

I just owe almost everything to my father and 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.

If you want to cut your own throat, don’t come to me for a bandage.

Being prime minister is a lonely job… you cannot lead from the crowd.

Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

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

Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.