Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Thatcher

Politician

Margaret Thatcher was the first female Prime Minister of the UK, known for her strong leadership and economic policies that transformed Britain.

People Country Believe Government Men War
Born
October 13, 1925
Died
April 8, 2013
Quotes
508
Rank
#193

Quote collection

Margaret Thatcher quotes (page 24 of 26)

508 quotes — follow a thought to its full quote page.

Margaret Thatcher Politician
Popular

"I think our support for the EEC has been very half-hearted. You really cannot join any group of nations and spend all your time criticising it. The EEC is free Europe getting together. Had we had some vision like that after the first world war , we might never had the second ... my son does not have to go and fight as his father had to fight. Surely that is the most valuable thing of all, the reason for keeping Europe together."

Father War Fighting
Read quote 3 likes
Margaret Thatcher Politician
Popular

"Any attempts by any government to change Community legislation to its own wishes are doomed to failure following the extension of policy areas now subject to majority voting... In our opinion, this must have serious implications for the traditional view of Parliament as a legislative body sovereignty."

Government Views Europe
Read quote 3 likes
Margaret Thatcher Politician
Popular

"If there is one instance in which a foreign policy I pursued met with unambiguous failure, it was my policy on German reunification."

Mets Foreign Policy Reunification
Read quote 3 likes
Margaret Thatcher Politician
Popular

"I hate extremes of any kind. Communism [seeks] the domination of the state over the individual... All my life I have stood against banning Communism or other extremist organisations because, if you do that, they go underground and it gives them an excitement that they don't get if they are allowed to pursue their policies openly. We'll beat them into the ground on argument..."

Hate War Giving
Read quote 3 likes
Margaret Thatcher Politician
Popular

"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."

Government Should Have Choices
Read quote 3 likes
Margaret Thatcher Politician
Popular

"While the Soviet Union has imposed its rule on its neighbours and drawn an iron curtain between east and west, we in Great Britain have given freedom and independence to more than forty-eight countries whose populations now number more than a thousand million - a quarter of the world's total."

Country Eight Iron
Read quote 3 likes
Margaret Thatcher Politician
Popular

"I must be absolutely clear about this. Britain cannot accept the present situation on the Budget. It is demonstrably unjust. It is politically indefensible: I cannot play Sister Bountiful to the Community while my own electorate are being asked to forego improvements in the fields of health, education, welfare and the rest."

Health Education Europe Play
Read quote 3 likes
Margaret Thatcher Politician
Popular

"(Not) even the US can impose peace: it has to be genuinely accepted by both parties involved."

Party Accepted Involved
Read quote 3 likes
Margaret Thatcher Politician
Popular

"I too have a certain idea of America. Moreover, I would not feel entitled to say that of any other country, except my own. This is not just sentiment, though I always feel ten years younger – despite the jet-lag – when I set foot on American soil: there is something so positive, generous, and open about the people – and everything actually works. I also feel, though, that I have in a sense a share of America."

Country Feet America
Read quote 3 likes
Margaret Thatcher Politician
Popular

"Gentlemen, I have spent the night thinking about this Peruvian (peace) initiative and I have to tell you that if it is your decision to accept then you will have to find another Prime Minister."

Night Thinking Decision
Read quote 3 likes
Margaret Thatcher Politician
Popular

"I have the money and they won't get their hands on it."

Hands Europe Britain
Read quote 3 likes
Margaret Thatcher Politician
Popular

"Naturally, it is with some temerity that the pupil speaks before the master, because you know more about the Common Market than anybody."

Common Speak Pupils
Read quote 3 likes
Margaret Thatcher Politician
Popular

"We should see to it that our people are steeped in a real knowledge and understanding of our national culture."

Real People Understanding
Read quote 3 likes
Margaret Thatcher Politician
Popular

"Geoffrey's personal style was very different from mine. He has a lovely speaking voice, a quiet speaking voice. But at Cabinet we always reported on foreign affairs - we always had this quiet voice. It was so quiet sometimes I had to say 'speak up'. And he gave it in a way which wasn't exactly scintillating. And you know, foreign affairs are interesting. They affect everything that happened to our own way of life, and they are exciting. And so we just diverged."

Quiet Voice Interesting Style
Read quote 3 likes
Margaret Thatcher Politician
Popular

"I believe our way of life is infinitely superior for every human being than any which the Communist creed can offer."

Believe Way Life Is
Read quote 3 likes
Margaret Thatcher Politician
Popular

"All the general propositions favouring freedom I had .. imbibed at my father's knee or acquired by candle-end reading of Burke and Hayek..."

Father Reading Knees
Read quote 3 likes
Margaret Thatcher Politician
Popular

"You know the critical thing with the Communist countries is Communism, which by definition consists of control by the government."

Country Government Definitions
Read quote 3 likes
Margaret Thatcher Politician
Popular

"Life in a free society...is heaven on earth to life in a socialist society such as Russia."

Russia Heaven Society
Read quote 3 likes
Margaret Thatcher Politician
Popular

"I want a capital-earning democracy. Every man and woman a capitalist. Housing is the start. If you're a man or woman of property, you've got something. So every man a capitalist, and every man a man of property."

Men Democracy Want
Read quote 3 likes