669 Quotes by Margaret Thatcher

I want a capital-earning democracy. Every man and woman a capitalist. Housing is the start. If you're a man or woman of property, you've got something. So every man a capitalist, and every man a man of property.

Our first duty to liberty is to keep our own. But it is also our duty - as Europeans - to keep alive in the Eastern as well as the Western half of our continent those ideas of human dignity which Europe gave to the world. Let us therefore resolve to keep the lamps of freedom burning bright so that all who look to the West from the shadows of the East need not doubt that we remain true to those human and spiritual values that lie at the heart of European civilization.

Had I faltered we would have neither the success nor the international reputation we have. Yet when a woman is strong she is strident. If a man is strong, he's a good guy.

If you go into what I call a bubble boom, every bubble bursts.

When you stop a dictator, there are always risks. But there are greater risks in not stopping a dictator.

It is absolutely right that President Reagan considers SDI and thank goodness people considered nuclear research before the last war.

I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

I believe our way of life is infinitely superior for every human being than any which the Communist creed can offer.

One hopes to achieve the zero option, but in the absence of that we must achieve balanced numbers.