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

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

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

I don’t think there will be a woman prime minister in my lifetime.

Nazism (National Socialism) and communism (international socialism) were but two sides of the same coin.

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

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

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.

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

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

In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.

Any leader has to have a certain amount of steel in them, so I am not that put out being called the Iron Lady.

While the home must always be the center of one’s life, it should not be the boundary of one’s ambitions.

I’m back, and you knew I was coming. On my way here I passed a cinema with the sign ‘The Mummy Returns’

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

For every idealistic peacemaker willing to renounce his self-defense in favor of a weapons-free world, there is at least one warmaker anxious to exploit the other’s good intentions.

And I will go on criticizing Socialism, and opposing Socialism because it is bad for Britain.

Enemies are so stimulating.

Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.

In martial arts, the biggest enemy is self. Inside you struggle because you want to prove something.

There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.

How could science be an enemy of religion when God commanded man to be a scientist the day He told him to rule the earth and subject it?

My dad raised me with some good advice: ‘Always tell the truth. Always shoot from the hip. You might not have many friends, but you’ll never have enemies, because people will always know where you’re coming from.’

Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the Beloved.

We make our money out of our friends. Our enemies will not do business with us.