669 Quotes by Margaret Thatcher

I started out in life with two great advantages: No money and good parents.

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

a great loss not only to Jordan, not only to the Middle East, but I think to the world as a whole.

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

... when a big man has a big idea I never like to stand in his way.

Advisers advise, and ministers decide.

The role of Ronald Reagan had been deliberately diminished; the role of the Europeans, who, with the exception of Helmet Kohl, were often keen to undermine America when it mattered, had been sanitized; and the role of Mr. Gorbachev, who had failed spectacularly in his declared objective of saving communism and the Soviet Union, had been absurdly misunderstood.

Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.

Ronald Reagan knew his own mind. He had firm principles - and, I believe, right ones. He expounded them clearly, he acted upon them decisively.