Margaret Thatcher Quotes

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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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• Let us never forget this fundamental truth: the State has no source of money other than money which people earn themselves. If the State wishes to spend more it can do so only by borrowing your savings or by taxing you more. It is no good thinking that someone else will pay - that 'someone else' is you. There is no such thing as public money; there is only taxpayers' money.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Thinking, People, Wish

  Margaret Thatcher (1989). “The revival of Britain: speeches on home and European affairs, 1975-1988”

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• If you set out to be liked, you will accomplish nothing.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Accomplish Nothing, Compromise, Be Prepared

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• Watch your thoughts for they become words. Watch your words for they become actions. Watch your actions for they become habits. Watch your habits for they become your character. And watch your character for it becomes your destiny. What we think, we become. My father always said that... and I think I am fine.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Inspirational, Father, Character

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

  Margaret Thatcher

  Inspirational, Funny, Wise

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

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  Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

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• Socialists cry “Power to the people”, and raise the clenched fist as they say it. We all know what they really mean - power over people, power to the State.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Mean, People, Fists

  Margaret Thatcher (1989). “The revival of Britain: speeches on home and European affairs, 1975-1988”

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• 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

  Cheer, Mean, Thinking

  "Thatcher Put the "Great" Back in Great Britain" by Jack Kelly, www.realclearpolitics.com. April 14, 2013.

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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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• Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Running, People

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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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• The government has no money of its own. It's all your money.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Government, No Money

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

  Margaret Thatcher

  Leadership, Business, Women

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

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  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.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Country, Hate, Believe

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

  Margaret Thatcher

  Party, Believe, Owners

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• You do not achieve anything without trouble, ever.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Trouble, Achieve

  "Thatcher Put the "Great" Back in Great Britain" by Jack Kelly, www.realclearpolitics.com. April 14, 2013.

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• 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.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Self, Hands, People

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• 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.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Winning, Training, Desire

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

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• (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.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Failure, Destiny, Europe

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

  Margaret Thatcher

  People, Ordinary, Might

  Margaret Thatcher's speech to Conservative Party conference at Winter Gardens in Blackpool, www.margaretthatcher.org. October 13, 1989.

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• 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.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Mistake, Mean, Compassion

  1977 Speech, Zurich University, 14 Mar.

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• 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.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Men, Masculine And Feminine, World

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

  Margaret Thatcher

  Winning, Messages, Just Being

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• The feminists hate me, don't they? And I don't blame them. For I hate feminism. It is poison.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Hate, Feminist, Feminism

  "Failure of the feminists" by Paul Johnson, www.spectator.co.uk. March 12, 2011.

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