I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. Margaret Thatcher More Quotes by Margaret Thatcher More Quotes From Margaret Thatcher There is a nonsense about intelligent women not being beautiful. Margaret Thatcher nonsense intelligent beautiful 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 strong taken country To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches. Margaret Thatcher leeches disease trying It will be years - not in my time - before a woman will become Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher prime investing years People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top. Margaret Thatcher work success opportunity Our children need strong families raising them with sturdy virtues, not to be smothered in the cold arms of the state. Margaret Thatcher strong children needs Choice is the essence of ethics: if there were no choice there would be no ethics, no good, no evil; good and evil have meaning only insofar as man is free to choose. Margaret Thatcher essence evil men There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it. Margaret Thatcher party mean believe Yet the basic fact remains: every regulation represents a restriction of liberty, every regulation has a cost. That is why, like marriage (in the Prayer Book's words), regulation should not "be enterprised, nor taken in hand, unadvisedly, lightly, or wantonly" Margaret Thatcher taken prayer book Ought we not to ask the media to agree among themselves a voluntary code of conduct, under which they would not say or show anything which could assist the terrorists' morale or their cause while the hijack lasted. Margaret Thatcher morale media causes For Dicey, writing in 1885, and for me reading him some seventy years later, the rule of law still had a very English, or at least Anglo-Saxon, feel to it. It was later, through Hayek's masterpieces "The Constitution of Liberty" and "Law, Legislation and Liberty" that I really came to think this principle as having wider application. Margaret Thatcher reading writing thinking Law and order is a social service. Crime and the fear which the threat of crime induces can paralyse whole communities, keep lonely and vulnerable elderly people shut up in their homes, scar young lives and raise to cult status the swaggering violent bully who achieves predatory control over the streets. I suspect that there would be more support and less criticism than today's political leaders imagine for a large shift of resources from Social Security benefits to law and order - as long as rhetoric about getting tough on crime was matched by practice. Margaret Thatcher lonely practice home If a Tory does not believe that private property is one of the main bulwarks of individual freedom, then he had better become a socialist and have done with it. Margaret Thatcher done doe believe Communism produces neither dignity nor prosperity. It takes all power away from the people and places it in the hands of a self-appointed elite. And because it distorts and manipulates the distinctive talents of individuals rather than letting those talents flourish, it prevents progress and prosperity. Margaret Thatcher self hands people If you are guided by opinion polls, you are not practicing leadership -- you are practicing followership. Margaret Thatcher followership polls opinion I don't think there will be a woman Prime Minister in my lifetime. Margaret Thatcher prime lifetime thinking It is always important in matters of high politics to know what you do not know. Those who think they know, but are mistaken, and act upon their mistakes, are the most dangerous people to have in charge. Margaret Thatcher mistake people thinking What Britain needs is an iron lady. Margaret Thatcher britain iron needs If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim. Margaret Thatcher saws swim interesting Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country. Margaret Thatcher strong-women running country
