Margaret Thatcher quotes

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

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

It's a funny old world.

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

I owe nothing to Women's Lib.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

If... many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.

You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.

People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

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.

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.

A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

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.

It's a funny old world.

You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.

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.

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

Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.

I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job.

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

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

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.

What Britain needs is an iron lady.

If... many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

If... many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.

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

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it.

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

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.

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.