669 Quotes by Margaret Thatcher

It took us a long time to get rid of the effects of the French Revolution 200 years ago. We don’t want another one.

I can’t help to spit nails when just thinking about Trade Unions.

I have the money and they won’t get their hands on it.

I’m not a good butcher but I’ve had to learn to carve the joint. People expect a new look.

I came to office with one deliberate intent: to change Britain from a dependent to a self-reliant society – from a give-it-to-me, to a do-it-yourself nation. A get-up-and-go, instead of a sit-back-and-wait-for-it Britain.

You cannot make an omelet without breaking some balls.

You can’t lead from the crowd.

The Third World is very much like the First World – just poorer: what works for the West will work for the rest as well.

The woman’s mission is not to enhance the masculine spirit, but to express the feminine; hers is not to preserve a man-made world, but to create a human world by the infusion of the feminine element into all of its activities.