Margaret Thatcher Quotes
'Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country'
'Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't'
'Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy'
'I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end'
'I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say'
'I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job'
'I owe nothing to Women's Lib.'
'If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim'
'If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing'
'It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.'
'Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.'
'One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex'
'There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.'
'This lady is not for turning.'
'To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches'
'You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure'
'You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.'
Born in Grantham, Lincolnshire
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