Margaret Thatcher quotes Born: 10/13/1925 Country: united_kingdom

• If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing. (Margaret Thatcher) [compromise/time]
• You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. (Margaret Thatcher) [fight/more]
• Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides. (Margaret Thatcher)
• If you want something said, ask a man...if you want something done, ask a woman. (Margaret Thatcher)
• A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us. (Margaret Thatcher) [weapons/more]
• 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) [desire/willpower/matter/training]
• 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) [attack/think/attack/argument]
• It pays to know the enemy / not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend. (Margaret Thatcher) [time]
• Unless we change our ways and our direction, our greatness as a nation will soon be a footnote in the history books, a distant memory of an offshore island, lost in the mists of time like Camelot, remembered kindly for its noble past. (Margaret Thatcher) [change/direction/greatness/nation]
• 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) [attack/think/attack/argument]
• Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country. (Margaret Thatcher) [housing/willpower/understanding]
• It pays to know the enemy -- not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend. (Margaret Thatcher) [time]
• No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he only had good intentions. He had money as well. (Margaret Thatcher) [remember/money]
• If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you. (Margaret Thatcher) [bad]
• It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs. (Margaret Thatcher)
• I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph. (Margaret Thatcher) [politics/conflict/evil/start]
• You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. (Margaret Thatcher) [fight/more]
• This lady is not for turning. (Margaret Thatcher) [lady]
• One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex. (Margaret Thatcher) [being/politics/men/sex]
• I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end. (Margaret Thatcher) [start]
• Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story. (Margaret Thatcher) [truth]
• I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it. (Margaret Thatcher) [mind/change]
• If it is once again one against forty-eight, then I am very sorry for the forty-eight. (Margaret Thatcher)
• There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families. (Margaret Thatcher) [thing/society/men/women]
• Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy. (Margaret Thatcher) [europe/america/philosophy]
• I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air. (Margaret Thatcher)
• To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects. (Margaret Thatcher) [process/beliefs]
• Most women defend themselves. It is the female of the species -- it is the tigress and lioness in you -- which tends to defend when attacked. (Margaret Thatcher) [women]
• I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near. (Margaret Thatcher) [top/recipe/willpower/top]
• Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth. (Margaret Thatcher)
• In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman. (Margaret Thatcher) [politics]

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