Quotes from Margaret Thatcher

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.

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

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

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

Watch your thoughts for they become words. Watch your words for they become actions. Watch your actions for they become habits. Watch your habits for they become your character. And watch your character for it becomes your destiny. What we think, we become. My father always said that... and I think I am fine.

If you lead a country like Britain… you have to have a touch of iron about you.

There's no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first.

If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

You turn if you want to. The lady's not for turning.

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

I owe nothing to Women's Lib.

There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it.

I'm extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

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

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

I like Mr. Gorbachev, we can do business together.

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

It's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job.

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.

I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.