And I will go on criticizing Socialism, and opposing Socialism because it is bad for Britain (...) It’s the Labor Government that have brought us record peace-time taxation. They’ve got the usual Socialist disease – they’ve run out of other people’s money.

— Margaret Thatcher

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

— Margaret Thatcher

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

— Margaret Thatcher

Being democratic is not enough, a majority cannot turn what is wrong into right. In order to be considered truly free, countries must also have a deep love of liberty and an abiding respect for the rule of law.

— Margaret Thatcher

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you aren't.

— Margaret Thatcher

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

— Margaret Thatcher

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

— Margaret Thatcher

Consensus: “The process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner: ‘I stand for consensus?

— Margaret Thatcher

Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.

— Margaret Thatcher

Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.

— Margaret Thatcher