Margaret Thatcher Quotes
20 quotes from Margaret Thatcher — First female Prime Minister of the UK (1979–1990)..
“Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.”
“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.”
“There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.”
“Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.”
“Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.”
“Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.”
“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.”
“It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.”
“If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.”
“If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.”
“I am not a consensus politician. I'm a conviction politician.”
“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.”
“You turn if you want to. The lady's not for turning.”
“We can do business together.”
“The single biggest intellectual error during my political lifetime has been to confuse freedom with equality. In fact, equality — being an unnatural condition which can only be enforced by the state — is usually the enemy of liberty.”
“I believe that we shall win whenever we have the Election, we shall continue to be there.”
“The base-line we had to start from was just after the Winter of Discontent, when it was quite clear that the unions had colossal power. Some people felt that the unions were more important than the Government of the country.”
“The only life worth living, we were taught, was a life of effort. We were instilled with the belief that it was not right merely to protest about what was wrong but we must do something about it ourselves.”
“The battle of ideas has to be fought anew every year, every day.”
“A rule of law is not merely the law which the state happens to impose or decide — it is a law which is founded on respect for the dignity of the individual.”
