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Memorable words from and about Margaret Thatcher
Browse a curated selection of memorable quotations from Margaret Thatcher’s speeches, interviews and writings — alongside notable words spoken about her by contemporaries.
The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
The lady's not for turning.
Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.
I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.
No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well.
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
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.
I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.
We must have a Europe in which countries cooperate together more closely on a whole range of issues. But a Europe of cooperating sovereign states, not a Europe submerged in some bureaucratic conglomerate.
I want my money back.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
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