Quotes by Margaret Thatcher

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

“There are too many people who imagine that there is something sophisticated about always believing the best of those who hate your country, and the worst of those who defend it.”

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

“The Labour Party believes in turning workers against owners; we believe in turning workers into owners.”

“You do not achieve anything without trouble, ever.”

“Communism produces neither dignity nor prosperity. It takes all power away from the people and places it in the hands of a self-appointed elite. And because it distorts and manipulates the distinctive talents of individuals rather than letting those talents flourish, it prevents progress and prosperity.”

“The desire to win is born in most of us. The will to win is a matter of training. The manner of winning is a matter of honour.”

“(A unified) 'Europe' is the result of plans. It is, in fact, a classic utopian project, a monument to the vanity of intellectuals, a programme whose inevitable destiny is failure: only the scale of the final damage done is in doubt.”

“Socialists don't like ordinary people choosing, for they might not choose Socialism.”

“We want a society in which we are free to make choices, to make mistakes, to be generous and compassionate. That is what we mean by a moral society - not a society in which the State is responsible for everything, and no one is responsible for the State.”

“The woman's mission is not to enhance the masculine spirit, but to express the feminine; hers is not to preserve a man-made world, but to create a human world by the infusion of the feminine element into all of its activities.”

“You don't win by just being against things, you only win by being for things and making your message perfectly clear.”