Margaret Thatcher Quotes

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.

What Britain needs is an iron lady.

It’s a funny old world.

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

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

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

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

This lady is not for turning.

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

Socialists cry “Power to the people”, and raise the clenched fist as they say it. We all know what they really mean – power over people, power to the State.

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.

You don’t tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

Ought we not to ask the media to agree among themselves a voluntary code of conduct, under which they would not say or show anything which could assist the terrorists’ morale or their cause while the hijack lasted.

You do not achieve anything without trouble, ever.