Margaret Thatcher Quotes

Marxism is at the root of debunking journalism.

If you are guided by opinion polls, you are not practising leadership – you are practising followship.

There is no way in which one can buck the market.

After three general election victories, leading the only party with clear policies, resolutely carried out, I intend to continue.

We have become a grandmother.

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

If you want to cut your own throat, don’t come to me for a bandage.

Democracies must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijackers of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.

I like Mr Gorbachev. We can do business together.

This is the day that I was meant not to see.

It is exciting to have a real crisis on your hands, when you have spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment.

To those who wait with bated breath for that favourite media catchphrase, the U-turn, I have only this to say. You turn if you want to. The lady’s not for turning.

There is no easy popularity, in that I believe that people accept that there is no alternative.

Where there is discord, may we bring harmony. Where there is error, may we bring truth. Where there is doubt, may we bring faith. Where there is despair, may we bring hope.

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 mist of time like Camelot, remembered kindly for its noble past.

Let us make this country safe to work in. Let us make this a country safe to walk in. Let us make it a country safe to grow up in. Let us make it a country safe to grow old in.

We want a society in which we are free to make choices, to make mistakes, to be generous and compassionate. That is what we mean by a moral society – not a society in which the State is responsible for everything, and no one is responsible for the State.

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

I owe nothing to Women’s Lib.