“Give me six men and true, and I will get policies through.”

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.

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.

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions; he had money as well.

Nowadays there really is no primary poverty left in this country. In Western countries, we are left with the problems which aren’t poverty

Look 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.

When people are free to choose, they choose freedom.

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

Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends.

Global warming provides a marvelous excuse for global socialism.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

When I refuse to obey an unjust law, I do not contest the right of the majority to command, but I simply appeal from the sovereignty of the people to the sovereignty of mankind.

We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us.

The tie of language is perhaps the strongest and the most durable that can unite mankind.

We are not truly civilized if we concern ourselves only with the relation of man to man. What is important is the relation of man to all life.

To sustain an environment suitable for man, we must fight on a thousand battlegrounds. Despite all of our wealth and knowledge, we cannot create a redwood forest, a wild river, or a gleaming seashore.

And men, whose reason long was blind, From cells of madness unconfined, Oft lose whole years of darker mind.

I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.

The most positive men are the most credulous.