Margaret Thatcher Quotes

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Margaret Thatcher

Profession : Leader

Birth : October 13, 1925

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.

Margaret Thatcher

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

Margaret Thatcher

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

Margaret Thatcher

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.

Margaret Thatcher

Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.

Margaret Thatcher

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.

Margaret Thatcher

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.

Margaret Thatcher

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

Margaret Thatcher

I owe nothing to Women's Lib.

Margaret Thatcher

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

Margaret Thatcher

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

Margaret Thatcher

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

Margaret Thatcher

People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

Margaret Thatcher

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

Margaret Thatcher

It's a funny old world.

Margaret Thatcher

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

Margaret Thatcher

What Britain needs is an iron lady.

Margaret Thatcher

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

Margaret Thatcher

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

Margaret Thatcher

If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim.

Margaret Thatcher