669 Quotes by Margaret Thatcher

We should see to it that our people are steeped in a real knowledge and understanding of our national culture.

In the background lurks the scourge of international terrorism. There are people exercising power in a few countries and leading political factions in others who seem to be moved by narrow, brutal and irrational impulses. Their view of their own self-interest is so blinkered as to leave no space for purely human values, for peaceful negotiation or for economic advancement. They are bent on the destruction of the established order and of civilised ways of doing business. They must never be allowed to succeed.

Their pitiless ideology only survives because it is maintained by force. But the day comes when the anger and frustration of the people is so great that force cannot contain it. Then the edifice cracks: the mortar crumbles.

Never in the history of human credit has so much been owed.

Let's make it clear: the Conservative Party has no plans for new NHS charges.

There is little hope for democracy if the hearts of men and women in democratic societies cannot be touched by a call to something greater than themselves.

We speak of peace, yes, but whose peace? Poland's? Bulgaria's? The peace of the grave?

The legal system we have and the rule of law are far more responsible for our traditional liberties than any system of one man one vote. Any country or Government which wants to proceed towards tyranny starts to undermine legal rights and undermine the law.

They are all a rotten lot. Schmidt and the Americans and we are the only people who would do any standing up and fighting if necessary.