Famous Margaret Thatcher Quotes

♦ Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t – Margaret Thatcher

♦  Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan – 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 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

♦  If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing – Margaret Thatcher

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

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

♦ I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it – Margaret Thatcher

♦ It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake – Margaret Thatcher

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

♦  Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend – Margaret Thatcher

♦ There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families – Margaret Thatcher

♦  A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us – Margaret Thatcher

♦  Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides – Margaret Thatcher

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

♦ There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors… I mean it – 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

♦ You don’t tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive – Margaret Thatcher

♦ If you want to cut your own throat, don’t come to me for a bandage – 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

♦ You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure – Margaret Thatcher

♦ Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus – Margaret Thatcher

♦ Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy – Margaret Thatcher

♦ There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty – Margaret Thatcher

♦ 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 – 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