Margaret Thatcher Quotes - Page 19

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• Any attempts by any government to change Community legislation to its own wishes are doomed to failure following the extension of policy areas now subject to majority voting... In our opinion, this must have serious implications for the traditional view of Parliament as a legislative body sovereignty.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Government, Views, Europe

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• It's the Labour Government that have brought us record peacetime taxation. They've got the usual Socialist disease - they've run out of other people's money.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Running, Government, People

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• At one end of the spectrum are the terrorist gangs within our borders, and the terrorist states which finance and arm them. At the other are the hard left operating inside our system, conspiring to use union power and the apparatus of local government to break, defy and subvert the law.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Law, Government, Unions

  Margaret Thatcher (1997). “The collected speeches of Margaret Thatcher”, HarperCollins

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• Successful entrepreneurship is ultimately a matter of flair. But there is also a fund of practical knowledge to be acquired and, of course, the right legal and financial framework has to be provided for productive enterprise to develop.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Successful, Matter, Financial

  "Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World". Book by Margaret Thatcher (p. 65), April 16, 2002.

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• I too have a certain idea of America. Moreover, I would not feel entitled to say that of any other country, except my own. This is not just sentiment, though I always feel ten years younger – despite the jet-lag – when I set foot on American soil: there is something so positive, generous, and open about the people – and everything actually works. I also feel, though, that I have in a sense a share of America.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Country, Feet, America

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• Human rights did not begin with the French Revolution...[they] really stem from a mixture of Judaism and Christianity...[we English] had 1688, our quiet revolution, where Parliament exerted its will over the King...it was not the sort of Revolution that France's was...'Liberty, equality, fraternity' - they forgot obligations and duties I think. And then of course the fraternity went missing for a long time.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Kings, Thinking, Rights

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

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• We had to do what we had to do - Britain is great again.

  Margaret Thatcher

  History, British History, Britain

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• While the Soviet Union has imposed its rule on its neighbours and drawn an iron curtain between east and west, we in Great Britain have given freedom and independence to more than forty-eight countries whose populations now number more than a thousand million - a quarter of the world's total.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Country, Eight, Iron

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• You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Lying, Deceit, Sometimes

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

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• From my experience let me say this: in today's world it is no bad thing for a politician to have had the benefit of a scientific background. And not only politicians. Those who work in industry, in commerce, in investment. Indeed, so important has it become that I believe we are right to make science a compulsory subject for all schoolchildren.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Believe, Important, Benefits

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• A world without nuclear weapons may be a dream but you cannot base a sure defence on dreams. Without far greater trust and confidence between East and West than exists at present, a world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Dream, Nuclear, World

  Margaret Thatcher's Speech at a Soviet Official banquet, St George's Halls, the Kremlin, www.margaretthatcher.org. March 30, 1987.

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• Their pitiless ideology only survives because it is maintained by force. But the day comes when the anger and frustration of the people is so great that force cannot contain it. Then the edifice cracks: the mortar crumbles.

  Margaret Thatcher

  War, Frustration, People

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

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• Please don't use the word tough. People might get the impression that I don't care. And I do care, very deeply. Resilient, I think.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Thinking, People, Use

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

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• I might have preferred iron - but bronze will do. It won't rust. This time I hope, the head will stay on.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Iron, Rust, Might

  "'Iron Lady' unveils her bronze statue", uk.reuters.com. February 22, 2007.

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• I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Family, Daughter, Fathers Day

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• Business success isn't just a selfish aim. Profits spread beyond those who make them and bring jobs and prosperity.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Jobs, Selfish, Business Success

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• All the general propositions favouring freedom I had .. imbibed at my father's knee or acquired by candle-end reading of Burke and Hayek...

  Margaret Thatcher

  Father, Reading, Knees

  "The Path to Power". Book by Margaret Thatcher (p. 604), 1995.

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• It is recorded how towards the end of the eighteenth century a Muslim visitor to England was taken to see the House of Commons at work. He later wrote of his astonishment at finding the that the British Parliament actually made laws and fixed punishments for their infraction - because unlike Muslims the English had not accepted a divine law revealed from heaven and therefore had to resort to such unsatisfactory expedients. Muslims still understand the expression 'the rule of law' very differently than do most Westerners.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Taken, Expression, Law

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• Well, there's a lot to react against![in response to the accusation that she was a reactionary]

  Margaret Thatcher

  Accusation, Wells, Response

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• President Numeiri of Sudan is said to have remarked of Gadaffi that he was 'a man with a split personality - both of them evil'.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Men, Evil, Personality

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• (On The International Criminal Court) "For the victors of the Cold War to submit to an unelected, unaccountable, and almost certainly hostile body such as that envisaged would be the ultimate irony."

  Margaret Thatcher

  War, Would Be, Body

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• As a motive for terror, religion has more often than not required a good deal of lubrication by lucre.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Motive, Terror, Deals

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• Rogue states never turn out to be quite the pariahs they are deemed. They are only able to cause, or at least threaten to cause, mayhem because they enjoy the covert support - usually by means of technology transfers - of one or more major powers within the charmed circle of global 'good guys'.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Mean, Technology, Circles

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• (Not) even the US can impose peace: it has to be genuinely accepted by both parties involved.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Party, Accepted, Involved

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• What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner 'I stand for consensus'?

  Margaret Thatcher

  Downing Street, Causes, Banner

  Speech at Monash University, www.margaretthatcher.org. October 6, 1981.

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