Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas?

— Margaret Thatcher

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

— Margaret Thatcher

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

— Margaret Thatcher

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

— Margaret Thatcher

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

— Margaret Thatcher

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

— Margaret Thatcher

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

— Margaret Thatcher

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.

— Margaret Thatcher

If it's me against 48 I feel sorry for the 48.

— Margaret Thatcher

If... many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.

— Margaret Thatcher