Margaret Thatcher Quotes About Iron Lady
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And what a prize we have to fight for: no less than the chance to banish from our land the dark divisive clouds of Marxist socialism.
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Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.
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We will stand on principle or we will not stand at all.
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If you set out to be liked, you will accomplish nothing.
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To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
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There are dangers in consensus: it could be an attempt to satisfy people holding no particular views about anything. ... No great party can survive except on the basis of firm beliefs about what it wants to do.
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My policies are based not on some economics theory, but on things I and millions like me were brought up with: an honest day's work for an honest day's pay; live within your means; put by a nest egg for a rainy day; pay your bills on time; support the police.
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I was asked whether I was trying to restore Victorian values. I said straight out I was. And I am.
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To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.
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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.
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You turn if you want to. The Lady's not for turning.
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I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.
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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.
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If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.
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What Britain needs is an iron lady.
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Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's a day you've had everything to do and you've done it.
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Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.
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We had to fight the enemy without in the Falklands. We always have to be aware of the enemy within, which is much more difficult to fight and more dangerous to liberty.
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It used to be about trying to do something. Now it's about trying to be someone.
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There is no week, nor day, nor hour, when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their supreme confidence in themselves, and lose their roughness and spirit of defiance. Tyranny may always enter—there is no charm or bar against it.
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It's the Labour Government that have brought us record peacetime taxation. They've got the usual Socialist disease - they've run out of other people's money.
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The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.
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I have made it quite clear that a unified Ireland was one solution that is out. A second solution was a confederation of two states. That is out. A third solution was joint authority. That is out-that is a derogation of sovereignty.
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Economics are the method; the object is to change the soul.
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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.
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Watch your thoughts for they become words. Watch your words for they become actions. Watch your actions for they become habits. Watch your habits for they become your character. And watch your character for it becomes your destiny. What we think, we become. My father always said that... and I think I am fine.
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We have become a grandmother.
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I came to office with one deliberate intent: to change Britain from a dependent to a self-reliant society - from a give-it-to-me, to a do-it-yourself nation. A get-up-and-go, instead of a sit-back-and-wait-for-it Britain.
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Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.
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To those waiting with bated breath for that favorite media catchphrase, the U-turn, I have only this to say, ‘You turn if you want; the lady’s not for turning.
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Margaret Thatcher
- Born: October 13, 1925
- Died: April 8, 2013
- Occupation: Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
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