Margaret Thatcher Quotes, Status, and Thoughts

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

If you set out to be liked, you will accomplish nothing.

You do not achieve anything without trouble, ever.

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

Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.

If your only opportunity is to be equal then it is not opportunity.

The first step in calculating which way to go is to find out where you are.

The government has no money of its own. It's all your money.

No Western nation has to build a wall around itself to keep its people in.

We will stand on principle or we will not stand at all.

The price of freedom is still, and always will be, eternal vigilance.

You cannot make an omelet without breaking some balls

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

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

Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.

When you hold back the success, you penalize those who need help.

No great goal was ever easily achieved.

Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money.

Life's greatest reward is life itself

I will not change just to court popularity.

I went to Oxford University - but I've never let that hold me back.

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

If it's me against 48, I feel sorry for the 48.

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

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

It used to be about trying to do something. Now it's about trying to be someone.

Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.

That is what capitalism is: a system that brings wealth to the many, not just a few.

I can't help to spit nails when just thinking about Trade Unions

Personal abuse is no substitute for policy. It signals panic.

You turn if you want to. The Lady's not for turning.

I am not a consensus politician. I'm a conviction politician.

I've got my teeth into him, and I'm not going to let go.

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

Fear is not the basis for foreign policy.

Socialists don't like ordinary people choosing, for they might not choose Socialism.