Margaret Thatcher's Best Quotes

Margaret Thatcher's Best Quotes
Wednesday, April 10, 2013 @ 6:59 PM

"I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it."

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

"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."

"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."

"If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing."

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

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

"If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman."

"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."

"Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend."

"Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy."

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

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

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

"I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it."

"A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us."

"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."

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

"There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty."

"To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best."

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

"I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near."

"Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it."

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

"Unless we change our ways and our direction, our greatness as a nation will soon be a footnote in the history books, a distant memory of an offshore island, lost in the mists of time like Camelot, remembered kindly for its noble past."

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

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

"The woman's mission is not to enhance the masculine spirit, but to express the feminine; hers is not to preserve a man-made world, but to create a human world by the infusion of the feminine element into all of its activities."

RIP

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