669 Quotes by Margaret Thatcher

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

I couldn’t live without work. That’s what makes me so sympathetic towards those people who are unemployed. I don’t know how they live without working.

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

In those days one advantage of being a woman was that there was a basic courtesy towards us on which we could draw – something which today’s feminists have largely dissipated.

Of course it’s the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

If you want to cut your own throat, don’t come to me for a bandage.

We’re saying to anyone who dares to attack us, Do not do it, you couldn’t win, the result would be devastating! I think you’re saying the same.

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.

I don’t want to fight any wars; if you can get them off before we get there, you do it, but off they go.