Margaret Thatcher Short Quotes

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It was then that the iron entered my soul.

Margaret Thatcher
I like Mr. Gorbachev. We can do business together.

Margaret Thatcher
I am in favour of agreement but against consensus.

Margaret Thatcher
Most of us have stopped using silver for everyday.

Margaret Thatcher
Defeat – I do not recognise the meaning of the word!

Margaret Thatcher
Freedom under the law must never be taken for granted.

Margaret Thatcher
The cocks may crow, but it's the hen that lays the egg.

Margaret Thatcher
Constitutions have to be written on hearts, not just paper.

Margaret Thatcher
Peace is hard work and we must not allow people to forget it.

Margaret Thatcher
Personal abuse is no substitute for policy. It signals panic.

Margaret Thatcher
Home is where you come to when you have nothing better to do.

Margaret Thatcher
(The Community Charge is) the flagship of the Thatcher fleet.

Margaret Thatcher
I am not a consensus politician. I am a conviction politician.

Margaret Thatcher
Personal virtue is no substitute for political hard-headedness.

Margaret Thatcher
If we open our hearts to God, He has promised to work within us.

Margaret Thatcher
Communism never sleeps, never changes its objectives. Nor must we.

Margaret Thatcher
I have never knowingly made a non-controversial speech in my life.

Margaret Thatcher
I don't think there will be a woman Prime Minister in my lifetime.

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

Margaret Thatcher
I presume this as to enable us to sweep Britain clean of Socialism.

Margaret Thatcher
I went to Oxford University - but I've never let that hold me back.

Margaret Thatcher
When will Labour learn that you cannot build Jerusalem in Brussels.

Margaret Thatcher
If your only opportunity is to be equal then it is not opportunity.

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

Margaret Thatcher
When you hold back the successful, you penalize those who need help.

Margaret Thatcher
Oh, but you know, you do not achieve anything without trouble, ever.

Margaret Thatcher
Pennies don't fall from heaven, they have to be earned here on earth.

Margaret Thatcher
Economics are the method; the object is to change the heart and soul.

Margaret Thatcher
You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

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

Margaret Thatcher