The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.
MARGARET THATCHERThe problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.
MARGARET THATCHERLook at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It’s not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it’s when you’ve had everything to do, and you’ve done it.
MARGARET THATCHERFreedom will destroy itself if it is not exercised within some sort of moral framework, somebody of shared beliefs, some spiritual heritage transmitted through the Church, the family, and the school.
MARGARET THATCHERPlan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.
MARGARET THATCHERPoliticians should resist the temptation to consider themselves experts in fields where they have no experience.
MARGARET THATCHERI am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.
MARGARET THATCHERDon’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.
MARGARET THATCHERNowadays there really is no primary poverty left in this country. In Western countries, we are left with the problems which aren’t poverty
MARGARET THATCHERI wasn’t lucky, I deserved it.
MARGARET THATCHERI usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.
MARGARET THATCHERWhile the home must always be the center of one’s life, it should not be the boundary of one’s ambitions.
MARGARET THATCHERChristmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends.
MARGARET THATCHERThe facts of life are conservative.
MARGARET THATCHEROf course, it’s the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
MARGARET THATCHERStanding in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
MARGARET THATCHERAny leader has to have a certain amount of steel in them, so I am not that put out being called the Iron Lady.
MARGARET THATCHER