Margaret Thatcher Quotes
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I sometimes think the Labour Party is like a pub where the mild is running out. If someone doesn't do something soon, all that's left will be bitter. (Laughter). And all that's bitter will be Left.
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The main contribution one can make as a student to one's country in peace or wartime is to study hard and effectively.
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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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The habit of ubiquitous interventionism, combining pinprick strikes by precision weapons with pious invocations of high principle, would lead us into endless difficulties. Interventions must be limited in number and overwhelming in their impact.
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It is always important in matters of high politics to know what you do not know. Those who think they know, but are mistaken, and act upon their mistakes, are the most dangerous people to have in charge.
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I have made it quite clear – and so did Mr Prior when he was Secretary of State for Northern Ireland – that a unified Ireland was one solution. That is out. A second solution was confederation of two states. That is out. A third solution was joint authority. That is out. That is a derogation from sovereignty.
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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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Our people will never keep the Red Flag flying here. There is only one banner that Britain flies, the one that has kept flying for centuries-the red, white and blue.
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To many of us it seems that there is precious little difference between the policies of the Communist Party and the policies of the Labour Party.
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I like Mr. Gorbachev. We can do business together.
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Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people's money. It's quite a characteristic of them.
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For my part, I favour an approach to statecraft that embraces principles, as long as it is not stifled by them; and I prefer such principles to be accompanied by steel along with good intentions.
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No-one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well.
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I believe in the British lion and I believe that the British character is lion-hearted, and I believe that it has not been lion-hearted in some of the post-War period, and I want it to get back to being lion hearted.
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North Korea desperately needed the foreign currency which this lethal trade could bring; its role as chief 'rogue' reinforced its prestige among anti-Western states, near and far; and it could also hope at the right moment to extort new instalments of Danegeld from America and her allies.
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People from my sort of background needed Grammar schools to compete with children from privileged homes like Shirley Williams and Anthony Wedgwood Benn.
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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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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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We could have stopped this, we could still do so... But for the most part, we in the west have actually given comfort to the aggressor.
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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!'
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Our sovereignty does not come from Brussels-it is ours by right and by heritage.
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It was a lovely morning. We have not had many lovely days. And the sun was just coming through the stained glass windows and falling on some flowers right across the church and it just occurred to me that this was the day I was meant not to see.
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What do you think of those two?
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I don't think there will be a woman Prime Minister in my lifetime.