669 Quotes by Margaret Thatcher

I think, historically, the term ‘Thatcherism’ will be seen as a compliment.

When all the objectives of government include the achievement of equality – other than equality before the law – that government poses a threat to liberty.

When people are free to choose, they choose freedom.

Please don’t use the word tough. People might get the impression that I don’t care. And I do care, very deeply. Resilient, I think.

Socialism is in no way a curate’s egg.

You don’t win by just being against things, you only win by being for things and making your message perfectly clear.

We do not achieve happiness or salvation in isolation from each other but as members of society.

As the former dissident Vladimir Bukovsky one remarked – referring to the Russian proverb to the effect that you cannot make an omlette without breaking eggs – he had seen plenty of broken eggs, but had never tasted any omlette.

The West as a whole in the early 1990s become obsessed with a ‘peace dividend’ that would be spent over and over again on any number of soft-hearted and sometimes soft-headed causes. Politicians forget that the only real peace dividend is peace.