Margaret Thatcher Quotes (79 Quotes)


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

    I'm not quite sure of his place in history. History will determine that.

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

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



    It was sheer professionalism and inspiration and the fact that you really cannot have people marching into other people's territory and staying there.

    To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.


    No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn't want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent.

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

    Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

    I'm fine, I'm fine. I feel fine. The doctors assessed her this morning and say she is OK.


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

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

    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.

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

    Her guidance and advice are always most acute and as prime minister I was privileged to benefit from both enormously.

    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.

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


    We didn't have to do the minuets of diplomacy. We got down to business.

    Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.


    One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, ''Well, I'll have a go, too.''

    Why do you climb philosophical hills Because they are worth climbing . . . There are no hills to go down unless you start from the top.

    I have a habit of comparing the phraseology of communiques . . . noting a certain similarity of words, a certain similarity of optimism . . . and a certain similarity in the lack of practical results during the ensuring years.


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


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