669 Quotes by Margaret Thatcher

Russia is bent on world domination.

We who are living in the west today are fortunate. Freedom has been bequeathed to us. We have not had to carve it out of nothing; we have not had to pay for it with our lives. But it would be a grave mistake to think that freedom requires nothing of us. Each of us has to earn freedom anew in order to possess it. We do so not just for our own sake, but for the sake of our children, so that they may build a better future that will sustain over the world the responsibilities and blessings of freedom.

Unless we change our ways and our direction, our greatness as a nation will soon be a footnote in the history books, a distant memory of an offshore island, lost in the mist of time like Camelot, remembered kindly for its noble past.

The Russians put guns before butter. We put just about everything before guns.

Fear is not the basis for foreign policy.

We need to create a mood where it is everywhere thought morally right for as many people as possible to acquire capital.

Any leader has to have a certain amount of steel in them, so I am not that put out being called the Iron Lady.

Inflation is the parent of unemployment and the unseen robber of those who have saved.

(On The International Criminal Court) "For the victors of the Cold War to submit to an unelected, unaccountable, and almost certainly hostile body such as that envisaged would be the ultimate irony."