Margaret Thatcher Quotes
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At one end of the spectrum are the terrorist gangs within our borders, and the terrorist states which finance and arm them. At the other are the Hard Left operating inside our system, conspiring to use union power and the apparatus of local government to break, defy and subvert the law.
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Let me say this, if you want someone weak you don't want me, there are plenty of others to choose from.
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We had to fight the enemy without in the Falklands and now we have to fight the enemy within, which is much more difficult but just as dangerous to liberty.
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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 not their job.
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Successful entrepreneurship is ultimately a matter of flair. But there is also a fund of practical knowledge to be acquired and, of course, the right legal and financial framework has to be provided for productive enterprise to develop.
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We are fighting a major internal war against terrorism in Northern Ireland, and need more troops in order to win it.
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I proclaim with confidence that Britain can get right back into the world competitive race if only we can break free of the collective chains which hold us back. Unlike the socialists, who trust the state, we trust the people. That is why we are the party of freedom.
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The battle of the Falklands was a remarkable military operation, boldly planned, bravely executed, and brilliantly accomplished. We owe an enormous debt to the British forces and to the Merchant Marine. We honour them all. They have been supported by a people united in defence of our way of life and of our sovereign territory.
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Instead of a government with steel in its backbone, we've got one with Steel in its pocket.
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I support very much the approaches that the President Ronald Reagan is taking. As you know, I am his greatest fan!
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Each demand for security, whether of employment, income or social position, implied the exclusion from such benefits of those outside the particular privileged group - and would generate demands for countervailing privileges from the excluded groups. Eventually, in such a situation every will lose.
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Children who need to be taught to respect traditional moral values are being taught that they have an inalienable right to be gay.
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Pennies don't fall from heaven, they have to be earned here on earth.
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The kind of Conservatism which he and I...favoured would be best described as 'liberal', in the old-fashioned sense. And I mean the liberalism of Mr Gladstone not of the latter day collectivists. That is to say, we placed far greater confidence in individuals, families, businesses and neighbourhoods than in the State.
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Never believe that technology alone will allow America to prevail as a superpower.
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Our opponents like to try and make you believe that Conservatism is a privilege of the few. But Conservatism conserves all that is great and best in our national heritage.
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But if Saddam had been in a position credibly to threaten America or any of its allies – or the coalition's forces – with attack by missiles with nuclear warheads, would we have gone to the Gulf at all?
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We were the first country to attempt and to succeed in rolling back the frontiers of socialism, which is the first cousin to communism.
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Let me make one thing absolutely clear. The National Health Service is safe with us.
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Not that this appears to affect the intentions of the political-bureaucratic elite, which in Britain as elsewhere in Europe believes that it has an overriding mission to achieve European integration by hook or by crook and which is convinced that History (with an extra-large 'H') is on its side.
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The violence and intimidation we have seen should never have happened. It is the work of extremists. It is the enemy within.
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Our aim is not just to remove our uniquely incompetent Government from office-it is to destroy the socialist fallacies-indeed the whole fallacy of socialism-that the Labour Party exists to spread.
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What do you think of those two?
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I had applied for a job at Imperial Chemical Industries in 1948 and was called for a personal interview. However I failed to get selected. Many years later, I succeeded in finding out why I had been rejected. The remarks written by the selectors on my application were: 'This woman is headstrong, obstinate and dangerously self-opinionated!'