669 Quotes by Margaret Thatcher

There’s no such thing as entitlement, unless someone has first met an obligation.

Object to merit and distinction, and you’re setting your face against quality, independence, originality, genius against all the richness and variety of life. When you hold back the successful, you penalize those who need help.

I do believe that political arrangements which are based upon violence, intimidation and theft will eventually break down – and will deserve to do so.

You turn if you want to. The Lady’s not for turning.

If you have a sense of purpose and a sense of direction, I believe people will follow you. Democracy isn’t just about deducing what the people want. Democracy is leading the people as well.

It is in a country’s interests to keep faith with its allies. States in this sense are like people. If you have a reputation for exacting favors and not returning them, the favours dry up.

The battle for women’s rights has largely been won. The days when they were demanded and discussed in strident tones should be gone forever. I hate those strident tones we hear from some Women’s Libbers.

We are very fortunate to have someone else’s weapons stationed on our soil, to fight those targeted on us.

Consensus is the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects. – Margaret Thatcher.