669 Quotes by Margaret Thatcher

Ought we not to ask the media to agree among themselves a voluntary code of conduct, under which they would not say or show anything which could assist the terrorists' morale or their cause while the hijack lasted.

I have never knowingly made a non-controversial speech in my life.

The Third World is very much like the First World - just poorer: what works for the West will work for the rest as well.

There are always dangers about. Therefore you must always keep your defences strong.

Bribing regimes to comply with requirements which they should have acknowledged in the first place is not a process that appeals to me.

What we should grasp, however, from the lessons of European history is that, first, there is nothing necessarily benevolent about programmes of European integration; second, the desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom; and third, European unity has been tried before, and the outcome was far from happy.

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.

How thin is the crust of order over the fires of human appetite and the lust for naked power.

Whether at home or abroad, the task of statesman is to work with human nature warts and all, and to draw on instincts and even prejudices that can be turned to good purpose. It is never to try to recreate Mankind in a new image.