Quotes By Margaret Thatcher

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

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

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

I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job.

To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.

Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.

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

Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

We were told our campaign wasn't sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment.

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it.

I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.

I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

I like Mr. Gorbachev, we can do business together.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

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

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

This lady is not for turning.

Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.

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.

If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.