669 Quotes by Margaret Thatcher

I still want to play in it, maybe when I absolutely think I have no chance of playing in it my view might change but I doubt it because it just doesn’t interest me.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn’t a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

I was turned out because I said to Europe no, no, no. That no, no, no has now turned into yes, yes. Two yes’s not three because he got the Social Chapter out and he’s reserved his position on the single currency.

What happened in Russia in 1917 wasn’t a revolution – it was a coup d’etat.

America, my friends, is the only country in the world actually founded on liberty – the only one. People went to America to be free.

For every idealistic peacemaker willing to renounce his self-defence in favour of a weapons-free world, there is at least one warmaker anxious to exploit the other’s good intentions.

But if Saddam had been in a position credibly to threaten America or any of its allies – or the coalition’s forces – with attack by missiles with nuclear warheads, would we have gone to the Gulf at all?

In a system of free trade and free markets poor countries – and poor people – are not poor because others are rich. Indeed, if others became less rich the poor would in all probability become still poorer.

Putting the World to Rights.