Margaret Thatcher Quotes

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.

Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.

Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd.

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

We were told our campaign wasn't sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment.

What Britain needs is an iron lady.

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.

You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

If you want something said, ask a man...if you want something done, ask a woman.

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.

I wasn't lucky. I deserved it.

It pays to know the enemy / not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.

The desire to win is born in most of us. The will to win is a matter of training. The manner of winning is a matter of honour.

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.

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions - he had money too.

Unless we change our ways and our direction, our greatness as a nation will soon be a footnote in the history books, a distant memory of an offshore island, lost in the mists of time like Camelot, remembered kindly for its noble past.

Economics are the method; the object is to change the soul.

It was sheer professionalism and inspiration and the fact that you really cannot have people marching into other people's territory and staying there.

Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.