Quotes by Margaret Thatcher

About Margaret Thatcher:

Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher is the only woman to have held the office. A Soviet journalist called her the "Iron Lady", a nickname that became associated with her uncompromising politics and leadership style. As Prime Minister, she implemented policies that have come to be known as Thatcherism.
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When people are free to choose, they choose freedom

Margaret Thatcher

If... many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.

Margaret Thatcher

Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas.

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

Margaret Thatcher

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

Margaret Thatcher

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

Margaret Thatcher

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

This lady is not for turning.

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

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

Margaret Thatcher

To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.

Margaret Thatcher

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

Margaret Thatcher

Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd.

Margaret Thatcher

Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.

Margaret Thatcher

I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.

Margaret Thatcher

You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

Margaret Thatcher

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

Margaret Thatcher

Author Bio

  • NameMargaret Thatcher
  • DescriptionPrime Minister of the United Kingdom
  • AliasesBaroness Thatcher; Margaret Hilda Thatcher; Margaret Roberts; Maggie Thatcher; Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher; Baroness Margaret Thatcher; Margaret Thatcher
  • BornOctober 13, 1925
  • DiedApril 8, 2013
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionPolitician; Chemist; Autobiographer
  • AwardsMember Of The Order Of Merit; Presidential Medal Of Freedom; Lady Of The Garter; Fellow Of The Royal Society; Order Of The White Lion; Ronald Reagan Freedom Award