Margaret Thatcher Quotes

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Margaret Thatcher

Profession : Leader

Birth : October 13, 1925

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Margaret Thatcher

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

Margaret Thatcher

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.

Margaret Thatcher

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

Margaret Thatcher

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

Margaret Thatcher

I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job.

Margaret Thatcher

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

Margaret Thatcher

You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.

Margaret Thatcher

I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.

Margaret Thatcher

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

Margaret Thatcher

This lady is not for turning.

Margaret Thatcher

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

Margaret Thatcher

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

Margaret Thatcher

To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.

Margaret Thatcher

If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage.

Margaret Thatcher

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.

Margaret Thatcher

The spirit of envy can destroy; it can never build.

Margaret Thatcher

It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.

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