Margaret Thatcher Quote

The spirit of envy can destroy; it can never build.
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Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.
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No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. An...
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I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not alway...
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Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd.
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There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.
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There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.
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To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it fu...
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Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both ...
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It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.
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What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing...
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Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
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Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
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Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.
MARGARET THATCHER

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

A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
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I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good w...
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People constantly requesting government intervention are casting their problems at society. And, you...
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I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and lea...
MARGARET THATCHER

This lady is not for turning.
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I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.
MARGARET THATCHER

The cocks may crow, but it's the hen that lays the egg.
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If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affa...
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Women have plenty of roles in which they can serve with distinction: some of us even run countries. ...
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I owe nothing to Women's Lib.
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Most women defend themselves. It is the female of the species -- it is the tigress and lioness in yo...
MARGARET THATCHER

Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.
MARGARET THATCHER

I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not al...
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Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
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One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all ...
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You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.
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If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman. -Margaret Thatcher.
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The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied t...
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It was sheer professionalism and inspiration and the fact that you really cannot have people marchin...
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In politics if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.
MARGARET THATCHER

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
MARGARET THATCHER

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doi...
MARGARET THATCHER

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
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One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.
MARGARET THATCHER

People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My messa...
MARGARET THATCHER

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.
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I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.
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Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doi...
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I have a habit of comparing the phraseology of communiques...noting a certain similarity of words, a...
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I don't mind how much my ministers talk -- as long as they do what I say.
MARGARET THATCHER

If it is once again one against forty-eight, then I am very sorry for the forty-eight.
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To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functi...
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Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problem...
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The battle for women's rights has been largely won.
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It pays to know the enemy -- not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him...
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No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he only had good intentions. He had money as well.
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I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's no...
MARGARET THATCHER

Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservati...
MARGARET THATCHER

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doi...
MARGARET THATCHER

In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.
MARGARET THATCHER

Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of p...
MARGARET THATCHER

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

If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.
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If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you wou...
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Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroa...
MARGARET THATCHER

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

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

There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as...
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To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies....
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Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.
MARGARET THATCHER

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
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I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they att...
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Ought we not to ask the media to agree among themselves a voluntary code of conduct, under which the...
MARGARET THATCHER

I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that&...
MARGARET THATCHER

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

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. Thanks to Mari...
MARGARET THATCHER

To those waiting with bated breath for that favorite media catchphrase, the U-turn, I have only this...
MARGARET THATCHER

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the gov...
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I think we've been through a period where too many people have been given to understand that if they...
MARGARET THATCHER

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

Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosoph...
MARGARET THATCHER

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.
MARGARET THATCHER

This is not the first such Europe-wide attempt to bully national electorates.
MARGARET THATCHER

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

If... many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up aga...
MARGARET THATCHER

I like Mr. Gorbachev, we can do business together.
MARGARET THATCHER

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

The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied t...
MARGARET THATCHER

I'm extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.
MARGARET THATCHER

We have become a grandmother
MARGARET THATCHER

I had the patriotic conviction that, given great leadership of the sort I heard from Winston Churchi...
MARGARET THATCHER

Economics are the method; the object is to change the soul.
MARGARET THATCHER

If you go into what I call a bubble boom, every bubble bursts.
MARGARET THATCHER

I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the thin...
MARGARET THATCHER

I owe nothing to Women's Lib.
MARGARET THATCHER

To Ronnie: Well done, thou good and faithful servant,
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It's a funny old world.
MARGARET THATCHER

It is only when you look now and see success that you say that it was good fortune. It was not. We l...
MARGARET THATCHER

[Her supporters call her] The Iron Lady, ... have brought equal competence, strength and courage to ...
MARGARET THATCHER

Her guidance and advice are always most acute and as prime minister I was privileged to benefit from...
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must be allowed to return to his own country forthwith.
MARGARET THATCHER

His politics had a freshness and optimism that won converts from every class and every nation, and u...
MARGARET THATCHER

He will be missed not only by those who knew him and not only by the nation that he served so proudl...
MARGARET THATCHER

I'm not quite sure of his place in history. History will determine that.
MARGARET THATCHER

a wonderful Queen and an extraordinary person.
MARGARET THATCHER

I want my money back!
MARGARET THATCHER

No one would have remembered the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions. he had money as we...
MARGARET THATCHER

On my way here I passed a local cinema and it turned out you were expecting me after all, for the bi...
MARGARET THATCHER

What Britain needs is an iron lady.
MARGARET THATCHER

I don't mind how much my ministers talk - as long as they do what I say.
MARGARET THATCHER

I don't know what I would do without Whitelaw. Everyone should have a Willy.
MARGARET THATCHER

Most women defend themselves. It is the female of the species / it is the tigress and lioness in you...
MARGARET THATCHER

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

I owe nothing to Women's Lib
MARGARET THATCHER

Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan
MARGARET THATCHER

I have made it quite clear that a unified Ireland was one solution that is out. A second solution wa...
MARGARET THATCHER

It's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modes...
MARGARET THATCHER

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

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the highro...
MARGARET THATCHER

I wasn't lucky. I deserved it.
MARGARET THATCHER

The desire to win is born in most of us. The will to win is a matter of training. The manner of winn...
MARGARET THATCHER

We didn't have to do the minuets of diplomacy. We got down to business.
MARGARET THATCHER

If you want something said, ask a man...if you want something done, ask a woman.
MARGARET THATCHER

[Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher praised the pontiff's role in toppling communism.] ...
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Unless we change our ways and our direction, our greatness as a nation will soon be a footnote in th...
MARGARET THATCHER

If you want anything said,ask a man;if you want anything done,ask a woman.
MARGARET THATCHER

We were told our campaign wasn't sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment.
MARGARET THATCHER

One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all ...
MARGARET THATCHER

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you wou...
MARGARET THATCHER

Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
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old, frail and sick.
MARGARET THATCHER

One hopes to achieve the zero option, but in the absence of that we must achieve balanced numbers.
MARGARET THATCHER

If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and yo...
MARGARET THATCHER

No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. An...
MARGARET THATCHER

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

I'm not a good butcher but I've had to learn to carve the joint. People expect a new look.
MARGARET THATCHER

In politics the unexpected happens
MARGARET THATCHER

It pays to know the enemy / not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him ...
MARGARET THATCHER

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

The woman's mission is not to enhance the masculine spirit, but to express the feminine; hers is not...
MARGARET THATCHER

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions - he had money too
MARGARET THATCHER

Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
MARGARET THATCHER

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

Some Socialists seem to believe that people should be numbers in a State computer. We believe they s...
MARGARET THATCHER

Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
MARGARET THATCHER

It's a funny old world.
MARGARET THATCHER

Being democratic is not enough, a majority cannot turn what is wrong into right. In order to be cons...
MARGARET THATCHER

We were told our campaign wasn't sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment.
MARGARET THATCHER

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

People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My m...
MARGARET THATCHER

Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care mor...
MARGARET THATCHER

I cannot prevent supporters and journalists alike from reaching their own conclusions as to my motiv...
BEN THATCHER

It is a joke, an absolute nonsense to even suggest such things.
BEN THATCHER

The manager held court with the media and gave one side of this unfortunate affair, which is why I'm...
BEN THATCHER

I have never bottled anything in my life and I'm not going to start now,
BEN THATCHER

I have been shown around the training facilities here, and they are really terrific. The pitches loo...
BEN THATCHER

Certain comments and actions in the build-up to the England and Poland games have made my position w...
BEN THATCHER

The manager has questioned my commitment and credibility in public and I feel I have no choice but t...
BEN THATCHER

For anybody to question whether I am behind the Wales cause is ridiculous and unfair. I have hardly ...
BEN THATCHER

I would have absolutely relished a battle in Poland - that's a major part of my game.
BEN THATCHER

Companies the world over are continually looking to help ensure they protect and have control over a...
CHRIS THATCHER

We just snap her car seat in it (the golf cart); it's the cutest thing you've ever seen.
CHRIS THATCHER

It would have been a very, very good thing if the next election after Margaret went we had lost.
DENIS THATCHER

I finally got me one, on the same dad-gum hole.
CHRIS THATCHER

When he was around, it was worrying time.
ELIZABETH THATCHER

I knew it would be a long road, but I knew they could survive.
ELIZABETH THATCHER

She looked like a little old man. She wasn't plump like a baby should be. She was skin and bones.
ELIZABETH THATCHER

I don't know what reception I'm at, but for God's sake give me a gin and tonic.
DENIS THATCHER

We didn't have a go-to guy in the second half. Gilder was tearing them up.
JOHN THATCHER

We just wanted to play a full 60 minutes of hockey and except for that last minute, we did.
KAREN THATCHER

This area lacks retail office space. Right now the choice people have for their businesses is St. Lo...
FRED THATCHER

We want to serve the business needs of a smaller town. We expect something like an attorney's office...
FRED THATCHER

It is built along what used to be a railroad. The Missouri Pacific used to run right along Front Str...
FRED THATCHER

Some people are leaving, and I might be one of them. I can't afford a hefty hike in rent.
MARK THATCHER

I would say 90 percent comes from Ball State, and the thing that is amazing to me is we have not acc...
KAREN THATCHER

You have to do something besides your job. You have to have the philanthropic that goes with our job...
KAREN THATCHER

They are just a great group of kids, and they get a whole week where they can have fun, they can be ...
KAREN THATCHER

We played solid, but the puck just didn't bounce our way. But at least the one goal loss gives us so...
KAREN THATCHER

We wouldn't condone it. We have zero tolerance whether it (involves) a staff member or residents.
MIKE THATCHER

Well-behaved women seldom make history.
LAUREL THATCHER ULRICH

Well-behaved women rarely make history
LAUREL THATCHER ULRICH

To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman...
LAUREL THATCHER ULRICH

Some history-making is intentional; much of it is accidental. People make history when they scale a ...
LAUREL THATCHER ULRICH

Interventions are really emotionally exhausting and I would never ever want to have one. In the same...
MARGARET CHO

I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to ...
MARGARET MEAD

I'm pretty casual. I love Free People and small vintage boutiques.
MARGARET QUALLEY

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.
MARGARET FULLER

A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those ...
MARGARET CAVENDISH

Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
MARGARET MEAD

Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary.
MARGARET MEAD

It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil a...
MARGARET MEAD

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home...
MARGARET MEAD

Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. ...
MARGARET MEAD

Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.
MARGARET MEAD

We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare ...
MARGARET MEAD

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be wom...
MARGARET MEAD

I want my careless song to strike no minor key; no fiend to stand between my body's Southern son...
MARGARET WALKER

Now when you hates you shrinks up inside and gets littler and you squeezes your heart tight and you ...
MARGARET WALKER

The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age.
MARGARET WALKER

What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
MARGARET MEAD

My uncle Sammy was an angry man. He had printed on his tombstone: What are you looking at?
MARGARET SMITH

Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome.
MARGARET ATWOOD

Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.
MARGARET ATWOOD

And I believe that public broadcasting has an important trust with the American people, it's an ...
MARGARET SPELLINGS

And I think that's righteous, I think that's what parents want to know. They want to know wh...
MARGARET SPELLINGS

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