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  • And what a prize we have to fight for: no less than the chance to banish from our land the dark divisive clouds of Marxist socialism.

    Dark   Fighting   Clouds  
    Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd
  • Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

    1979 Interviewed by the Observer four days after becoming Britain's first woman Prime Minister, 8 May.
  • We will stand on principle or we will not stand at all.

  • If you set out to be liked, you will accomplish nothing.

  • To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

    1987 Interview, ABC TV, 18 Mar.
  • Where there is discord may we bring harmony. Where there is error, may we bring truth. Where there is doubt, may we bring faith. Where there is despair, may we bring hope.

    Hope   Truth   Errors  
  • 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.

    Party   Views   People  
    Margaret Thatcher (1997). “The collected speeches of Margaret Thatcher”, HarperCollins
  • My policies are based not on some economics theory, but on things I and millions like me were brought up with: an honest day's work for an honest day's pay; live within your means; put by a nest egg for a rainy day; pay your bills on time; support the police.

    Mean   Rainy Day   Eggs  
    "Cameron harks back to Thatcher over tax cuts" by Jenny Percival and Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. May 19, 2008.
  • I was asked whether I was trying to restore Victorian values. I said straight out I was. And I am.

    Trying   Said   Iron Lady  
    Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd
  • To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.

    "The Downing Street Years". Book by Margaret Thatcher, October 18, 1993.
  • 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.

    Cheer   Mean   Thinking  
    "Thatcher Put the "Great" Back in Great Britain" by Jack Kelly, www.realclearpolitics.com. April 14, 2013.
  • You turn if you want to. The Lady's not for turning.

    Powerful   Iron   Want  
    Speech at Conservative Party Conference, Brighton, England, 10 Oct. 1980 See Christopher Fry 1
  • I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

    Change   Leadership   Men  
    Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd
  • What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

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

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • What Britain needs is an iron lady.

    Iron   Needs   Britain  
  • The Prime Minister, shortly after she came into office, received a sobriquet as the 'Iron Lady'. It arose in the context of remarks which she made about defence against the Soviet Union and its allies; but there was no reason to suppose that the Right Honourable Lady did not welcome and, indeed, take pride in that description. In the next week or two this House, the nation and the Right Honourable Lady herself, will learn of what metal she is made.

    Pride   Next Week   Two  
  • 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 a day you've had everything to do and you've done it.

  • Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.

  • 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.

    "National archives: Margaret Thatcher wanted to crush power of trade unions" by Alan Travis, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2013.
  • It used to be about trying to do something. Now it's about trying to be someone.

    Trying   Used   Iron Lady  
  • There is no week, nor day, nor hour, when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their supreme confidence in themselves, and lose their roughness and spirit of defiance. Tyranny may always enter—there is no charm or bar against it.

    Country   People   Bars  
  • It's the Labour Government that have brought us record peacetime taxation. They've got the usual Socialist disease - they've run out of other people's money.

  • The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.

  • I have made it quite clear that a unified Ireland was one solution that is out. A second solution was a confederation of two states. That is out. A third solution was joint authority. That is out-that is a derogation of sovereignty.

  • Economics are the method; the object is to change the soul.

    Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd
  • I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

    "The feminist who didn't want to be called one" by Christine Todd Whitman, www.politico.com. December 9, 2013.
  • Watch your thoughts for they become words. Watch your words for they become actions. Watch your actions for they become habits. Watch your habits for they become your character. And watch your character for it becomes your destiny. What we think, we become. My father always said that... and I think I am fine.

  • We have become a grandmother.

    Quoted in Times (London), 4 Mar. 1989
  • I came to office with one deliberate intent: to change Britain from a dependent to a self-reliant society - from a give-it-to-me, to a do-it-yourself nation. A get-up-and-go, instead of a sit-back-and-wait-for-it Britain.

    Self   Giving   Office  
    Margaret Thatcher's Speech to Small Business Bureau Conference, www.margaretthatcher.org. February 8, 1984.
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