669 Quotes by Margaret Thatcher

Why do you climb philosophical hills? Because they are worth climbing . . . There are no hills to go down unless you start from the top.

What Britain needs is an iron lady.

If you are guided by opinion polls, you are not practicing leadership -- you are practicing followership.

Never flinch. Make up your own mind and do it.

People from my sort of background needed grammar schools to compete with children from privileged homes like Shirley Williams and Anthony Wedgwood Benn.

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.

I am not immortal, but I've got a lot left in me yet.

Many of our troubles are due to the fact that our people turn to politicians for everything.

Personal virtue is no substitute for political hard-headedness.