Quotes from Margaret Thatcher

When the state does everything for you, it will soon take everything from you.

The problem with socialists, is that they always run out of other people's money,

El deseo de ganar nace en la mayoría de nosotros. La voluntad de ganar es una cuestión de entrenamiento. La manera en que se gana es una cuestión de honor.

For my part, I did not make a particularly important contribution to Shadow Cabinet. Nor was I asked to do so. For Ted and perhaps others I was principally there as the statutory woman whose main task was to explain what 'women' – Kiri Te Kanawa, Barbara Cartland, Esther Rantzen, Stella Rimington and all the rest of our uniform, undifferentiated sex – were likely to think and want on troublesome issues.

those who were born at the depths of one great crisis who would be able to cope with the next.

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

El socialismo es un sistema que prefiere que los pobres sean más pobres con tal que los ricos sean menos ricos.

Being powerfull is like being a lady. If you have to tell people that you are, you aren't

Being Prime Minister is a lonely job. In a sense, it ought to be: you cannot lead from the crowd. But with Denis there I was never alone. What a man. What a husband. What a friend.

Global warming provides a marvelous excuse for global socialism. " Margaret Thatcher

feminists hate me don't they? And i don't blame them. For i hate feminism. It is poison.

Nessuno ricorderebbe il Buon Samaritano se avesse avuto solo buone intenzioni. Aveva anche soldi.

All collectivism is always conducive to oppression: it is only the victims who differ.

Politicians should resist the temptation to consider themselves experts in fields where they have no experience.

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.

We believe that economic progress comes from the inventiveness, ability, determination and the pioneering spirit of extraordinary men and women. If they cannot exercise that spirit here, they will go away to another free enterprise country which will then make more economic progress than we do.

Amid a good deal of merriment, not least from Harold Lever himself, a shrewd businessman from a wealthy family, I replied: 'I always felt that I could never rival him [Lever] at the Treasury because there are four ways of acquiring money. To make it. To earn

New ideas are created when they can be discussed freely, but if there is a CORRECT view then you cease to have new ideas

Nowadays there really is no primary poverty left in this country. In Western countries we are left with the problems which aren't poverty. All right, there may be poverty because people don't know how to budget, don't know how to spend their earnings, but now you are left with the really hard fundamental character—personality defect.

We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain, only to see them reimposed at a European level with a European super-state exercising a new dominance from Brussels.

Socialism is like one of those horrible viruses. You no sooner discover a remedy for one version, than it spontaneously evolves into another.

Let our children grow tall and some taller than others if they have it in them to do so.

The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money