Margaret Thatcher Quotes

Of course, we are poorer than most of our NATO allies. This is part of the disastrous economic legacy of Socialism.

The first duty of any Government is to safeguard its people against external aggression. To guarantee the survival of our way of life.

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

We want a society where people are free to make choices, to make mistakes, to be generous and compassionate. This is what we mean by a moral society; not a society where the state is responsible for everything, and no one is responsible for the state.

May I also say a few words about my personal belief in the relevance of Christianity to public policy – to the things that are Caesar’s? The Old Testament lays down in Exodus the Ten Commandments as given to Moses, the injunction in Leviticus to love our neighbor as ourselves, and generally the importance of […]

Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.

Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy.

People think that at the top there isn’t much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

Any set of social and economic arrangements which is not founded on the acceptance of individual responsibility will do nothing but harm. We are all responsible for our own actions. We cannot blame society if we disobey the law. We simply cannot delegate the exercise of mercy and generosity to others.

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