Iron Lady Quotes

• 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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• 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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• I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

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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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• It used to be about trying to do something. Now it's about trying to be someone.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Trying, Used, Used To Be

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• We will stand on principle or we will not stand at all.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Principles

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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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• Defeat? I do not recognize the meaning of the word.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Powerful, Iron, Defeat

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• Where there is discord may we bring harmony. Where there is error, may we bring truth. Where there is doubt, may we bring faith. Where there is despair, may we bring hope.

  Francis of Assisi

  Hope, Truth, Errors

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• What Britain needs is an iron lady.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Iron, Needs, Britain

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

  Margaret Thatcher

  Running, Freedom, Government

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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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• 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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• No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Television interview, 6 Jan. 1986, in The Times 12 Jan. 1986

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• I am not immortal, but I've got a lot left in me yet.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Immortal, Left

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• I have made it quite clear that a unified Ireland was one solution that is out. A second solution was a confederation of two states. That is out. A third solution was joint authority. That is out-that is a derogation of sovereignty.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Two, Government, Politics

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• There is no week, nor day, nor hour, when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their supreme confidence in themselves, and lose their roughness and spirit of defiance. Tyranny may always enter—there is no charm or bar against it.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Country, People, Bars

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• All attempts to destroy democracy by terrorism will fail. It must be business as usual.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Democracy, Usual, Terrorism

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

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• I like Mr Gorbachev, we can do business together.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Business, War, Together

  The Times 18 Dec. 1984

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• To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Trying, Leeches, Disease

  "The Downing Street Years". Book by Margaret Thatcher, October 18, 1993.

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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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• 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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• Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's a day you've had everything to do and you've done it.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

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