Iron Lady Quotes - Page 2

• I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Motivational, Positive, Hard Work

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What Britain needs is an iron lady.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Iron, Needs, Britain

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• Ladies and gentlemen, I stand before you tonight in my …  chiffon evening gown, my face softly made up, my fair hair gently waved, the Iron Lady of the Western world. Me? A Cold War warrior? … Well, yes — if that is how they wish to interpret my defense of values of freedoms fundamental to our way of life.

  Margaret Thatcher

  War, Iron, Hair

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

  Margaret Thatcher

  Patience, Perseverance, Powerful

  In Observer 4 Apr. 1989

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

  Margaret Thatcher

  Running, Country, Strong Women

  1979 Interviewed by the Observer four days after becoming Britain's first woman Prime Minister, 8 May.

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

  Margaret Thatcher

  Leadership, Encouraging, Strong Women

  "The feminist who didn't want to be called one" by Christine Todd Whitman, www.politico.com. December 9, 2013.

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

  Margaret Thatcher

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  1987 Interview, ABC TV, 18 Mar.

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• To me consensus seems to be - 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.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Powerful, Believe, Principles

  Margaret Thatcher's speech at 1981 Sir Robert Menzies lecture at Blackwood Hall of Monash University in Melbourne, www.margaretthatcher.org. October 6, 1981.

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

  Margaret Thatcher

  Change, Leadership, Men

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Running, Freedom, Government

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

  Margaret Thatcher

  Philosophy, Europe, America

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• 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

  Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

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

  Margaret Thatcher

  Believe, Evil, Interesting

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• I never hugged him, I bombed him.

  Margaret Thatcher

  "Libya: Margaret Thatcher gives Colonel Gaddafi's Labour friends a history lesson" by Richard Eden, www.telegraph.co.uk. March 13, 2011.

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• There's no such thing as society.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Quoted in Woman's Own, 31 Oct. 1987

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• I was asked whether I was trying to restore Victorian values. I said straight out I was. And I am.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Trying, Said, Victorian

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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

  Margaret Thatcher

  Business, Two Sides, Decision

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• If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Interesting, Swim, Saws

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Margaret Thatcher

  Women, Rights, Coal Miners

  Quoted in Woman's Own, 31 Oct. 1987

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

  Margaret Thatcher

  Long, Interesting, Political

  In Observer 27 Jan. 1980

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

  Margaret Thatcher

  Leadership, Powerful, Following The Crowd

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• Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Powerful, Inspiration, Today

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• Economics are the method; the object is to change the soul.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Government, Soul, Economics

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• One must be brave if one is to take the wheel.

  Meryl Streep

  Brave, Wheels, Ifs

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• And what a prize we have to fight for: no less than the chance to banish from our land the dark divisive clouds of Marxist socialism.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Dark, Fighting, Clouds

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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