Margaret Thatcher Quotes

I will not change just to court popularity.

Consensus is the negation of leadership.

We simply cannot delegate the exercise of mercy and generosity to others.

There is little hope for democracy if the hearts of men and women in democratic societies cannot be touched by a call to something greater than themselves.

Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.

Europe was created by history.merica was created by philosophy.

I don't mind how much my ministers talk -- as long as they do what I say.

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. Thanks to Maria Marquis Thoreau There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve.

One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, Well, I'll have a go, too.

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